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MGMT on Naming New Album ‘Loss of Life’ — And the ‘Wildness’ of That ‘Saltburn’ Synch
Armed with a fresh creative outlook and a stellar collaborative crew, the enduring psych-rock duo’s latest revolves around love’s indestructibility.
“Coming out of the pandemic, there was a whole wave of super doom-oriented art and music and apocalyptic shit,” VanWyngarden says of MGMT’s first album since 2018’s Little Dark Age. VanWyngarden: We both turned 40 while making this album, and we wanted to find a way to retain our light-hearted, playful approach to things but to challenge ourselves to have more of a sincere and hopeful message. I was like, “OK, another [person] who wants to use ‘Time To Pretend’… I wish they would use one of our newer songs.” But then I saw Saltburn and I was like, “Oh, this is set in 2007, this totally makes sense.” It’s really great to be kind of passively participating in another cultural phenomenon.
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