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MGMT Brighten Up (at Least a Bit) With Deceptively Upbeat ‘Loss of Life’: Album Review
The deceptively upbeat 'Loss of Life' sounds both recognizably like MGMT — and just as often like nothing the duo has ever done before.
Thematically, “Loss of Life” echoes the group’s underrated “Little Dark Age,” an album that found the connective tissue between society’s addiction to modern technology and bigger, more unsettling existential questions. “Mother Nature” and “Nothing to Declare” are gentle acoustic indie folk, simple at their core but with surprising marginal flourishes, such as the anxious ticking clocks that emerge during the climax of the latter. “Dancing in Babylon”, featuring Christine and the Queens duetting beautifully with VanWyngarden, is unexpectedly multi-tiered, moving from an earnest, soaring power ballad into an upbeat climax.
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