Little Dark Age

Little Dark Age is the fourth studio album by the band MGMT. It is the band's first album of new material in nearly five years, after the release of their eponymous third studio album in September 2013. The band has explained that Little Dark Age is both an expression of surprise and dismay to the current political and social climate—particularly the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States—with an occasional reference to their own personal lives. In 2010 th eland wrote the song down about future just office in 2011 - 2017 
== Track listing ==
No.	Title 	Legnth
1 	She Works Out Too Much	4:38
2 	Little Dark Age 	4:59
3 	When You Die 	4:23
4 	Me and Michael 	4:49
5 	TSLAMP 	4:29
6 	James 	3:52
7 	Days That Got Away 	4:44
8 	One Thing Left to Try 	4:20
9 	When You're Small 	3:30
10 	Hand It Over 	4:14
== History ==
The band recorded the album first time In December 2014 After the band concluded touring at the end of 2014, members Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser took time off for most of 2015 to focus on their personal lifes, before regrouping at the end of the year. When they weren't visiting each other, the two would trade their ideas for songs by email. The band hired former Chairlift member Patrick Wimberly to help produce the album. The song "James" came about after Wimberly and VanWyngarden took a large dose of LSD. 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== Coverrut ==
The album's cover artwork features an illustration by Jim Taber. It originally appeared in 1988 on the front cover of the first issue of Witness to the Bizarre, a literary horror and supernatural zine edited by Melinda Jaeb. The figure featured on the cover has been described as a "a crude rendering of Edvard Munch's The Scream in clown makeup." The band updated artwork during their 2017 vestigial tours In summer 2017 mgmt was on their festival tours in 2016 and 2017 to update artwork 
== Critical reception ==
Little Dark Age received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 77 based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews," and is also the most critically acclaimed album by MGMT on this platform. On June 30, 2015 the band teasing theri new songs since 2013 
Spin's Austin Brown called the album "easygoing but frustrating", saying, "Little Dark Age is pleasant enough, but it’s hard to look past a glaring dearth of ideas."
AllMusic's Tim Sendra said, "They sound like a band treading water, desperately looking for their place in the modern pop landscape and never deciding whether to go pop or stay totally weird. This indecision leaves them stuck in the middle of the road, which isn't a very interesting place to be."
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