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How Meat Loaf, Elden Ring, and the Apocalypse Inspired MGMT’s Loss of Life
“I don’t think I’ve ever played piano like that in my life.”
And though it’s lighter on synths, it’s still full of those playful MGMT moments, like a self-described“disgusting” bass part on “Dancing in Babylon” or the cheeky sequencing of “Loss of Life, Pt. We’ve dealt with this idea of mortality and existential anxiety for a long time in our music, so it’s just a matter of which timeframe you choose to — do you want to be terrified about dying from a nuclear attack? “The deals we made to shake things up / And the rights that they abused / Might just fuck us over,” VanWyngarden sings on closing track “Hand It Over.” Lucky for Goldwasser, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline also played on the song.
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