Sonic Boom-Produced MGMT LP Due

Royal Trux's Jennifer Herrema also guests on the album.

By Blurt Staff

Congratulations, the new studio album from MGMT, will be released on April 13 on Columbia. It's the successor to 2008's Oracular Spectacular.

Congratulations is described as "a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence."

The tracks are:  "It's Working," "Song for Dan Treacy," "Someone's Missing," "Flash Delirium," "I Found a Whistle," "Siberian Breaks," "Brian Eno," "Lady Dada's Nightmare," and "Congratulations."

Hey, we are all about tours de force and songs titled after Brian Eno.

Produced by MGMT and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Spectrum), Congratulations was recorded throughout 2009 in upstate New York, Malibu, and Brooklyn and features Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, MGMT's core duo, performing with Matt Asti (bass, backing vocals), Will Berman (drums, backing vocals), and James Richardson (guitar, backing vocals), the band's live line-up.

Congratulations offered MGMT the opportunity to work with a couple of their musical idols and influences including album co-producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) and Royal Trux front-woman Jennifer Herrema, who contributed guest vocals.  "We've been lucky enough to meet and work with some of our all-time musical heroes," Andrew says, marveling at MGMT's good collaborative karma.  "It's so great to be around such amazing and unusual musical minds."

Ben and Andrew first met Sonic Boom at a Spectrum show in London in February 2009 and wound up onstage jamming with the band on "Suicide," a vintage Spacemen 3 track paying homage to another MGMT influence.

MGMT has become an international festival favorite with performances at South By Southwest, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in the states and the Glastonbury extravaganza in the UK.  The band has toured with Beck, Yeasayer and Of Montreal, among others, while becoming a headline concert attraction in its own right.  MGMT is confirmed to appear at the 2010 Coachella and Bamboozle festivals.