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MGMT and Christine and the Queens’ ‘Dancing in Babylon’ Is a Ballad of Love, War, and Sandwiches
MGMT have enlisted Chris of Christine and the Queens for a surreal but tender new power ballad, 'Dancing in Babylon.'
The new track— set to appear on Loss of Life, out Feb. 23 via Mom + Pop — is, at its core, a tender piano ballad, but with the kind of quintessentially strange undercurrents you’d expect from MGMT. The visual opens with a man making himself a turkey sandwich and sitting down in front of a TV to play some kind of war video game. “Creating the ‘Dancing in Babylon’ video with Chris and Ray was a prodigious affair (love), requiring everyone involved to operate in six dimensions at once, all while simultaneously making a simple turkey sandwich with Dijon mustard,” VanWyngarden and bandmate Ben Goldwasser said in a statement.
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