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9.0
102163
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A box of synth pop magic tricks and prove they’ve still got something good to give
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8.5
102198
8.5 |
Under The Radar
Perhaps the best indie-rock album of the year so far
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8.3
102044
8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Little Dark Age could have been the first record, beaming with hope but unable to execute on every track
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8.2
102165
8.2 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Not too bad for a band that only five years ago insisted they couldn’t write pop songs
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8.0
102280
8.0 |
Mojo
These mavericks are right back no form. Print edition only
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8.0
102283
8.0 |
Clash
This album is already being heralded as a return to form, yet this seems reductive given the positive influence of their previous couple of albums on this project
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8.0
102029
8.0 |
Q
It’s a record that embodies a whole world of vulnerability, confusion and unsteadiness without losing shape. Print edition only
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8.0
102030
8.0 |
NME
The psychedelic indie heroes make a surprise return to pop with their fun-filled fourth album
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8.0
102097
8.0 |
The Observer
Finds MGMT finally rediscovering their mojo
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8.0
102099
8.0 |
musicOMH
Having reined in their experimental tendencies and focused on a common goal, the boys are most definitely back in town
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8.0
102108
8.0 |
American Songwriter
Earns its outsized ambition through some genuinely excellent songs
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8.0
102110
8.0 |
Paste Magazine
The album feels like it’s alternately melting and lifting, warming and woozy
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7.4
102118
7.4 |
Earbuddy
Finally, it sounds like they’ve found the happy medium between their experimental tendencies and their natural pop charisma
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7.0
102106
7.0 |
The Music
It's been a long time since MGMT have been this accessible
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7.0
102072
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The psych-pop duo spool out concise tunes and a likable Luddite message on their fourth LP
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7.0
102036
7.0 |
Pitchfork
If Little Dark Age is a new start, it’s a promising one
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7.0
102041
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
For better or worse, Little Dark Age is an album for its time: moody, backward-looking, a little depressed
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7.0
102027
7.0 |
Exclaim
Its first half features some of the group's sweetest pop confections since those massive singles, while its second delves into the muggy Barrett-isms of their more recent work
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6.5
102104
6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Will MGMT finally warm up to its stature as a beloved pop band? It’s hard to say, but until then, we’re stuck in the wilderness with these guys
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6.0
102116
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
A fun and purposeful release
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6.0
102026
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The result is an affirmation that MGMT don’t feel as electric as they once did, but even after a few dissident years, their sense of hope is no less diminished
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6.0
102052
6.0 |
All Music
They sound like a band treading water, desperately looking for their place in the modern pop landscape and never deciding whether to go pop or stay totally weird
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5.0
102102
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
More often than not, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser lapse back into a sardonic mode that sounded a whole lot better in 2007 than it does in 2018
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4.0
102078
4.0 |
The FT
The duo’s latest tries to recapture the zest of their debut with zany misanthropy, synth drones and washed-out vocals
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