The electronic/disco/pop/rock group MGMT has made a huge splash, earn­ing spots on tours with no less than Paul McCart­ney and Beck. The wildly catchy “Time to Pre­tend,” “Elec­tric Feel,” and “Kids” (the lat­ter fea­tur­ing a truly deranged music video) are not out of keep­ing with the rest of their reper­toire in terms of style and instru­men­ta­tion, but the infec­tious hooks do stand apart from the for­get­table rest. At their Cel­e­brate Brook­lyn con­cert in Prospect Park on July 1, they debuted a few new songs set for their forth­com­ing sopho­more album that didn’t imme­di­ately grab me either.

MGMT live in Prospect Park

For a band called “synth-hippies” by Pitch­fork, they all looked rather clean-cut to me (but they evi­dently have a very young and boozy audi­ence — one kid passed out and lit­er­ally col­lapsed on our feet only a few songs into the con­cert). Their sound may be very elec­tronic and a throw­back to disco, but their live instru­men­ta­tion is very rock gui­tar ori­ented. The only excep­tion being “Kids,” for which the band put down their ana­log instru­ments and let the syn­the­siz­ers and sequencers take over, even recre­at­ing a live fadeout.

MGMT live in Prospect Park

Offi­cial band site: www.whoismgmt.com

Buy the MGMT album Orac­u­lar Spec­tac­u­lar from Ama­zon and kick back a few pen­nies to The Dork Report.

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