MGMT brought their sound and vision (cool video behind them on stage) to last summer's 80/35 Festival in downtown Des Moines. At that time they were probably working on their fourth album, Little Dark Age. The advance word on the new record was that MGMT mainmen Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser were going to rein in their experimental side this time out, and bring some focus to the proceedings. As the music was released, that's exactly what we got- MGMT's eccentric songs and left-field pop sensibilities remain for Little Dark Age, but with a bit more self-discipline in the studio as the record came together. And that's a very good thing for MGMT.
Here are the Top 30 new releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending March 4, 2018:
1 Calexico- The Thread That Keeps Us
2 Franz Ferdinand- Always Ascending
3 Belle And Sebastian- How To Solve Our Human Problems
4 Django Django- Marble Skies
5 MGMT- Little Dark Age
6 S. Carey- Hundred Acres
7 Porches- The House
8 Anna Burch- Quit The Curse
9 Shannon & The Clams- Onion
10 Tune-Yards- I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
11 Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy
12 Ought- Room Inside The World
13 Dream Wife- Dream Wife
14 Shopping- The Official Body
15 Flyte- The Loved Ones
16 Ty Segall- Freedom's Goblin
17 Loma- Loma
18 Palm- Rock Island
19 Caroline Rose- Loner
20 Wild Beasts- Last Night All My Dreams Came True
21 Ezra Furman- Transangelic Exodus
22 Bahamas- Earthtones
23 Rhye- Blood
24 Hibou- Something Familiar
25 Darling West- While I Was Asleep
26 Hovvdy- Cranberry
27 Ride- Tomorrow's Shore
28 U.S. Girls- In A Poem Unlimited
29 Joan As Police Woman- Damned Devotion
30 Jeff Rosenstock- Post-