“Mother Nature” by MGMT

"Mother Nature" was the first taste of Loss of Life, MGMT's fifth album, dropping on October 31, 2023, nearly four months before the record itself landed in February 2024. The band pitched it as one more chapter of their private mythology, one hero trying to coax the other onto a journey there's no ducking, and cheerfully owned up that one stretch sounds like Oasis.

Stereogum heard sunshine in it, coming this time from warm guitar instead of buzzing synths, and Consequence noted how grounded it feels next to their more psychedelic past. Andrew VanWyngarden wrote the words and adds glass harmonica and fretless bass, Nels Cline adds guitar, and Danger Mouse and Oneohtrix Point Never pitched in on production alongside Patrick Wimberly and the band. Dave Fridmann mixed it.

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