MGMT

brooklyn duo compile a diverse, surprising & coherent mixtape of post-punk, cult indie & counter-culture figureheads.

this ‘late night tales’ selection reflects the band’s multifaceted sound & draws comparisons with contemporary dreampop /chillwave / shoegaze / folk scenes on both sides of the atlantic. luminaries the velvet underground, suicide & julian cope sit alongside less familiar names such as disco inferno, whose ‘can’t see it through’ from their final album ‘technicolour’ opens proceedings. mgmt’s exclusive cover of ‘all we ever wanted was everything’ by bauhaus sits comfortably alongside the uk post-punk gothic band’s peers, the durutti column, the chills, the jacobites & felt, with their brief but imposing instrumental ‘red indians’. the double header of cheval sombre’s ‘troubled mind’ & ‘drug song’ by 60’s christian folk singer dave bixby accentuate the reverie offered by the ever penitent spacemen 3, with ‘lord can you hear me?’, closing with an exclusive spoken word piece by journalist & art of noise collaborator, paul morley.