MGMT aka the Management recently signed on with Sony's Columbia record label last year. With some stellar endorsement from Rolling Stone magazine, their debut album found great success world wide and especially here in Australia where the album had extensive air play time from local alternative radio station Triple J. Although there are some punters who resent the recent glut of eighties synthesizer motifs in indie pop (ala Ladyhawke, Van She, The Presets among others), for most of those in their thirties who grew up being bombarded with songs like Van Halen's "Jump", it's a like catching a second wave of synth pop nostalgia. So here's MGMT's "Kids" with it's catchy synth riff.
Investigating MGMT a little further, I discovered they're anything but new, being active in the New York area since around 2002. The single "Kids" too has been around the same length of time. Just goes to show how some great tunes by unsigned artists can lie untapped for years or even go completely undiscovered.
Check out this next Youtube clip from 2002/2003 with MGMT performing "Kids" live.
Props to Teddy Gage for posting this rare and personal video clip.
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