“Electric Feel” by MGMT

"Electric Feel" slinks out of Oracular Spectacular, MGMT's 2007 debut, and went out as its second single in June 2008. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser wrote and arranged it between them, and it's the album's most irresistible oddity: a woozy strut of synth funk and disco, psychedelic around the edges, with a groove that keeps stretching just past where your feet expect it to land. That's by design, since the song runs mostly in 6/4 instead of pop's usual 4/4, so every phrase takes the long way home.

It gave the band their first top-50 hit in Australia, NME ranked it fifth among the best singles of 2008, and Triple J listeners voted it number two in that year's Hottest 100. For its second video, the band called in the Rock-afire Explosion.

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