New MGMT, You Know You Are Excited.

I'm pretty excited about MGMT's new album that is set to release April 13th. Mostly because the last one kept me quazi-sane during my first year out of college and in the working world. "Time to Pretend" and "Kids" had the ability to transfer me from my makeshift Elfa desk back to the glorious Saturday afternoon of ACL where they truly were the show of the weekend (if you were there than you know what I am talking about). But when I read below that they are moving away from songs like those I am perplexed to say the least. Will the album be as good?  We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, the in between time, see what Flavorwire's Andrew Whang has to say about it and their weird infomercial...

In preparation for their highly-anticipated sophomore release Congratulations, trendsetters MGMT have released a 21-second “informercial” about what comes with the unique packaging of their new album. For just $13 you get a scratch-off cover, a custom metal coin, and a 32-page booklet of photos and lyrics. Sure, the description on the order page could have sufficed, but why settle for bullet points when you can have an ’80s-infused slideshow?

Ben Goldwasser told NME back in January that the upcoming release is less about standout singles than their debut: “We’d rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio — if anything gets played on the radio! There definitely isn’t a ‘Time to Pretend’ or a ‘Kids’ on the album. We’ve been talking about ways to make sure people hear the album as an album in order and not just figure out what are the best three tracks, download those and not listen to the rest of it.”

UPDATE: Listen to some of the new tracks in their entirety here.