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A-Side = The Black Ghosts - Any Way You Choose To Give It

Simon Lord and Theo Keating have only just recently met, but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing a whole heap of good music together; ah the power and humor of the interwebs.  The Black Ghosts are two British fellas with a lot to say, and following their prior successes with other notable groups, they got together via the internet to make some amazing psychedelic electropop.  Ex-Simian frontman Simon Lord proves he’s got more to say these days than “I used to in a band with these guys” by providing some stellar, swirling vocals all over the track, while former Wiseguy Theo Keating produces in line with his current handle.  Anyway you cut it, these guys rip out a good jam with decent wordplay and a bassline to be jealous of.

B-Side = MGMT - Metanoia

In the same vein of psychedelic electropop, we have the sub-genre’s heroes, MGMT.  These boys (and they are young) got together their Freshman year at Wesleyan and have put out surprisingly good music ever since.  Now exploding all over the cultural landscape; opening for Of Montreal and Beck, and getting play in movies and CW programs, MGMT are the it boys of the moment.  And as the remixes roll in, Justice and Soulwax being the real heavyweights to chime in, we see that everyone seems to love these guys.  This track is a departure, with multiple movements and an expanded intrumental scope as evidence.  Is this what we’ll see on the next album?  Considering this song has considerably less of the electro and more of the psyche, just like their transition from single to album earlier in their career, I think we can reasonably expect at least one opus like this one their next disc.  Whatever they do, lets hope they continue to take whatever drugs they have been so far.