MGMT seem like teasing a brand new album after followers noticed a publish on the band’s subreddit this week.
As reported on Stereogum, the duo’s Andrew VanWyngarden posted a photograph of a check urgent on the band’s subreddit (September 21). The picture was accompanied by a banana and the textual content “elf of soils”.
Reddit customers have been speculating that it could possibly be an anagram of a brand new album title based mostly on two earlier posts by VanWyngarden – one which instructed a brand new MGMT album is more likely to come out in 2023, the opposite titled “Simply acquired performed cooking L.O.L” (by way of Pitchfork).
Again in January, MGMT teased a “fancy new album” that they are saying can be completed and launched in 2023.
The New York-based duo final launched an album with 2018’s ‘Little Darkish Age’, and frontman VanWyngarden promised in 2022 that they’d return with new music that yr though that didn’t materialise.
Nonetheless, after they have been introduced for the Simply Like Heaven competition earlier this yr (January 17), they gave an replace on new music.
Of latest music, they stated: “Maintain checking again in with us as a result of we’ve been making some enjoyable new recordings and have a flowery new album (LOL) that ought to be completed sooner or later this yr, which is the yr 2023.”
For the reason that 2018 launch of ‘Little Darkish Age’, the band have been largely quiet, although appeared in characteristic spots on The Avalanches‘ star-studded current album ‘We Will At all times Love You’ and ColaBoyy’s monitor ‘Child Born In House’.
In that point, VanWyngarden has additionally shared new music below his solo moniker Light Dom, lined Tones and I’s world smash ‘Dance Monkey’ and remixed Metronomy and Membership Intl.
Of progress on the brand new report, he advised followers on Reddit final August: “There are irons within the fireplace and we’ve got been busy. I had forgotten my login data, the mgmt drought ends this yr.”
