MGMT at the Uptown

After all, one of the band’s hits, “Time to Pretend,” is a goofy shot at what Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden would do if they, y’know, actually made it big: I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.

Little did they know that their college project would transform them into the very stars they intended to fuck with. After the release of the band’s 2007 debut, Oracular Spectacular, MGMT’s burbling electronic melodies exploded into massive radio hits. Now, “Kids,” “Time to Pretend” and “Electric Feel” are relics of MGMT’s relatively shallow past. The eerie, lonely stretches of the band’s sophomore release, Congratulations, took the band’s label by surprise and alienated a large amount of the band’s fan base; and now, MGMT is out on tour to support its “grower” of a sophomore album.