MGMT is Back with a Fifth Studio Album ‘Loss Of Life’ On the Way

By Dale B  •  in Music
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If you grew up in the late 2000s, you would have grown up on MGMT’s iconic hits, ‘Kids’ and ‘Electric Feel’. These classic hits were the soundtrack to a whole generation of music fans, and now they’re back for a whole new album.

MGMT have announced their fifth studio album, Loss Of Life, the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Little Dark Age. Band members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser produced the 10-track Loss Of Life with Patrick Wimberly, known for his work with Beyoncé and Lil Yachty. 

Formed in 2002, MGMT released their Grammy-nominated debut album Oracular Spectacular in 2007, followed by Congratulations in 2010 and a self-titled album three years later. Their fourth album, Little Dark Age, became a viral smash during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Loss Of Life will be released on 23 February on Mom + Pop Music, the band’s new home following a long tenure with Columbia Records. The album’s first single, ‘Mother Nature’, has been released with a music video available online. 

According to the band, the song “outlines the archetypical MGMT mythology of one hero attempting to get the other hero to come on the journey that they ‘must’ go on. One part sounds like Oasis.” 

The animated video for ‘Mother Nature’ was directed by another MGMT longtime collaborator, Jordan Fish, who has worked with the group since Oracular Spectacular. In the clip, two animal friends named Dog and Turtle team up to take down an evil pet collector. 

Here’s the tracklist for Loss Of Life:

  1. Loss Of Life (part 2)
  2. Mother Nature
  3. Dancing In Babylon (featuring Christine and the Queens)
  4. People In The Streets
  5. Bubblegum Dog
  6. Nothing To Declare
  7. Nothing Changes
  8. Phradie’s Song
  9. I Wish I Was Joking  
  10. Loss Of Life

“All joking aside (never!), we are very proud of this album and the fact that it was a relatively painless birth after a lengthy gestation period, and are happy to be releasing this baby into the world with Mom+Pop,” MGMT says. 

“Musically speaking, we are running at around 20% adult contemporary and no more than this, please.”