mgmt So, to recap: MGMT made an album that everybody loved, even the president of France. “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” were the two monster tunes, but the rest was pretty likeable.

Then they made Congratulations, a follow-up that some thought was made deliberately to piss everyone off. I loved it, but then I’ve always loved Love’s “Forever Changes”, which was exactly the same album. To add insult to injury, MGMT have been playing shows recently without playing “Kids”, confirming that they’re just being spiteful.
So any MGMT gig review has to be about how they blend “Oracular Spectacular” and “Forever Changes” into a single show, and whether or not they’re still being bastards and refusing to play the songs we all want to hear.

So, in a nutshell, they played “Time to Pretend”, they played Kids, and they played a lot of their second album and it all blended perfectly well into a psychedelicy spectacular that thrilled the packed White Stage. It seems like I’m not the only one that likes their second album.

Hits ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Other bits ★ ★ ★ ★
Saturday nightness ★ ★ ★ ★ ★