Everything is a game in love, war and sandwiches.
We are just a few days away from the release of the long-awaited album Loss Of Life next February 23rd via Mom + Popbut MGMT gives us the latest single. Is about “Dancing In Babylon”a job associated with Christine and the Queens.
“Dancing In Babylon”at its core, is a tender ballad, with prominent piano sounds, but with the kind of essentially strange undercurrents you’d expect from MGMT. Andrew VanWyngarden and Chris they blend seamlessly on vocals, trading lines before playing some sublime mixes at the end of the bridge: “I wanna tell everyone I know /I Love you/ “I wanna touch the scars and break the chains”.
Once we incorporate Christine and the Queensentered another space where he felt like ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ or a ballad of Roxy Music. “It’s everywhere,” he said. VanWyngarden in a press release.
The song is accompanied by an epic narrative video, directed by the band’s long-time collaborator, Ray Tintoriand with the participation of the actors John Cameron Mitchell and Julian Morris.
The image begins with a man preparing a sandwich of turkey and sitting in front of a television to play some kind of war video game. That begins a surreal, cosmic and moving story of soldiers in love, this seems to clash with the interpretation of the song of MGMT and Chris.
In addition to having images about war, sandwiches and love, there are scenes where MGMT and Christine and the Queens They share a frame while playing the song. An accompaniment on the piano, guitar and microphone. When watching these scenes, the comfort of both groups in being together in this collaboration is shown, they seem to have a connection inside and outside of the performance, which makes the band’s return even more enjoyable.
I always loved the multiverse MGMThis freedom and talent, his limpid compositions and his incredible soundscapes, inspiring,” he says. Chris about collaboration.
Creating the video was a prodigious (love) adventure, requiring everyone involved to operate in six dimensions at once, while also preparing a simple sandwich turkey with mustard”, comment the members of MGMT In an interview.
This latest advance, “Dancing In Babylon” follow the previous singles “Mother Nature”, “Bubblegum Dog” and “Nothing To Declare”, while Loss Of Life It is the duo’s first in six years, since Little Dark Age in 2018.
