“Kids,”“Electric Feel,” and “Time to Pretend”—were the kind of devilishly catchy songs primed for use in TV commercials and movie trailers. The three perfectly crafted pop songs, to their benefit, feel defiantly young. “Time to Pretend” is in some ways a tongue-in-cheek parody ...
Compared to MGMT’s previous hit singles “Kids,”“Electric Feel” and “Time to Pretend,” which were hugely successful, the songs in “Little Dark Age” fall flat with over-synthesized vocals and an overabundance of strange, unsettling sounds. The combination of these two distracting, negativ...