Loss Of Life

MGMT

2024

3.47

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12%

35%

47%

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Genres: Electronica, Rock, Pop Styles: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Pop, Indie Rock

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Album Summary

Loss of Life is the fifth studio album by the American rock band MGMT. It was released on February 23, 2024, making it their label debut on Mom + Pop in the United States and internationally on BMG Rights Management, and their first studio album in six years since 2018's Little Dark Age. It features a guest appearance by French singer Christine and the Queens, making it the first feature on an MGMT album. On September 21, 2023, Andrew VanWyngarden posted a picture of a vinyl "test pressing" with a banana on top on Reddit, accompanied by the caption "elf of soils". The latter was reported to be an anagram of what would be the album title. The title was first hinted at on April 5 through a photo captioned "Just got done cooking L.O.L." by VanWyngarden. Loss of Life is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018's Little Dark Age. The album was produced by MGMT (Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser) along with Patrick Wimberly. Longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann mixed the album as he has done on the group's past four full lengths. On Loss of Life, additional production was supplied by Daniel Lopatin and James Richardson. Brian Burton provides additional production on "Mother Nature" and Miles A. Robinson served as associate producer and engineer across the album.

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Feb 27 2026 Author

I've listened to MGMT before, though I can't say I'm very familiar with their work. But this was not at all what I expected. It was very mellow, almost easy listening-ish. It was good though. Almost reminded me of Elliott Smith at times. Will listen again. 4 stars.

Feb 28 2026 Author

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Dancing in Babylon, Bubblegum dog, Phradie’s song

Mar 01 2026 Author

Great production and songwriting. There’s a lot going on here, so I’ll have to listen again to truly appreciate it, but it’s both fun to listen to and an album that has substance. Very well done, guys. 4/5

Mar 01 2026 Author

I hadn't listened to this one in about a year so it was nice to go back to it. There's maybe 2-3 duds mixed in, but for the most part its a really solid album with super catchy hooks and interesting instrumentation. 8/10

Feb 27 2026 Author

While this album was a welcome dose of indie to see on the user list and is generally okay, it still remains pretty disappointing in the wider context of MGMT’s discography. The band showed they could rock clean production and maintain their trademark quirkiness on ‘Little Dark Age’ to great effect, so why does this album forego the band’s joie de vivre entirely? The whole thing feels so flat creatively and instrumentally, like the fun edges that define this band have been sanded off. MGMT please blink twice if you’re being held at gunpoint.

Feb 27 2026 Author

Pretty sure there's been at least one other album by this band in the list. I can't recall how it took me. I liked this but wasn't over the moon about it. A little too uniformly soft. As well, the lyrics were on the grandiose side while not being all that rich in content to my ears. It might grow on me with time.

Feb 27 2026 Author

Oh there are other MGMT songs! And they sound like this?

Mar 01 2026 Author

The unique sounds what made 'Kids' and 'Time to Pretend' succesful were not exactly present in this album. That made this sound a bit more generic. It was fine, but not outstanding

Mar 02 2026 Author

Neo-psychedelia, indie rock. Ni fu ni fa.