Despite making enjoyable records it'd be easy to think of MGMT as gadabouts and chancers whose musical output lacked a basis in depth. This superior selection of curios and cult concerns from both sides of the pond proves that impression completely false. Opening with the completely undated sound of early-mid 90s leftfield darlings Disco Inferno, the collection sprawls through psych folk, dream pop and shoegaze, taking in the classic downbeat extra terrestrial funk of Durutti Column and the frankly scary tale of a comedown to beat all comedowns, Dave Bixby’s ‘Drug Song’. MGMT themselves even appear with a classy cover of Bauhaus. Interesting and consistently engaging.
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