{"id":329,"date":"2012-06-29T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-07-15T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:04:45","slug":"mgmt-future-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/329\/mgmt-future-games\/","title":{"rendered":"MGMT: Future Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-330\" title=\"MGMT Future Games\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mgmt-fleetwood-mac-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"MGMT Future Games\" width=\"212\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mgmt-fleetwood-mac-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mgmt-fleetwood-mac.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>Just yesterday we were treated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/06\/lykke-li-silver-springs-studio-acoustic-version\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lykke Li&#8217;s excellent take<\/a> on the Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac song &#8220;Silver Springs,&#8221; but now it&#8217;s time to give the late\u00a0Bob Welch his due with a cover of 1971 single &#8220;Future Games,&#8221; the title track off the band&#8217;s fifth LP. <!--more-->Perhaps we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that MGMT leaned heavily on the track&#8217;s psychedelic side given their track record, but even that would be an understatement, as\u00a0Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden&#8217;s vision borders on scary acid trip territory here with robot voices, dissonant synth experiments, and barely distinguishable lyrics &#8212; certainly a decent homage to the era&#8217;s drug culture, at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>More notably, for us anyway, is that this just might offer a glimpse into the sonic direction the band will explore on their forthcoming third album. We&#8217;ll have to wait a bit more for that one, but in the meantime, get acquainted with their contribution to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/06\/fleetwood-mac-tribute-feat-the-kills-j-mascis-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just Tell Me That You Want Me<\/a><\/em> below:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F51184033&amp;show_comments=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=040404\" \/><embed width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F51184033&amp;show_comments=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=040404\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday we were treated to Lykke Li&#8217;s excellent take on the Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac song &#8220;Silver Springs,&#8221; but now it&#8217;s time to give the late\u00a0Bob Welch his due with a cover of 1971 single &#8220;Future Games,&#8221; the title track off the band&#8217;s fifth LP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,66,65],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fleetwood-mac","tag-future-games","tag-mgmt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}