It’s been effectively over 5 years since MGMT launched Little Darkish Age, their most up-to-date album, and the New York duo hasn’t precisely given the impression that they’re in a rush to comply with it up. Again in Might, MGMT performed the blog-rock nostalgia-fest Simply Like Heaven, performing their debut album Oracular Spectacular in full. MGMT launched the 12″ single “As You Transfer Via The World” in 2020, and bandleader Andrew VanWyngarden has come out with a few solo tracks since then. MGMT members have additionally contributed to current data from Lil Yachty and Cola Boyy. However now it’s wanting like we’d get a brand new MGMT file earlier than the tip of the yr.

Andrew VanWyngarden has recently taken to posting on MGMT’s subreddit. Yesterday, underneath the headline “it routinely remembered my login data really,” VanWyngarden posted a photograph of a few take a look at pressings, with a banana sitting on high of them.

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Final yr, MGMT launched the reside album 11.11.11. On that subreddit earlier this yr, one fan mentioned that the reside album “was nice however I kinda need new materials.” VanWyngarden responded, “I’d say there’s a 99.999% likelihood mgmt releases a brand new full size album someday in 2023.”

Six months in the past, he posted a photograph with the road “Simply received achieved cooking L.O.L.” and added that “this isn’t album paintings only a photograph.” Followers, for no matter, guessed that the “L.O.L.” was a touch on the album title and that it is likely to be referred to as Loss Of Life. On the photograph of the take a look at pressings, somebody scrawled the phrase “elf of soils,” which is an anagram of Loss Of Life.

So long as we’re enjoying the scavenger-hunt detective recreation: Does that banana imply they’re going for a Velvet Underground form of factor? Or did somebody simply really feel like consuming a banana?