"Alien Days" is the first single released from ''

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,'' the third album by

, which was released as a cassette single on April 20, 2013. VanWyngarden explains the song as the feeling when "a parasitic alien is in your head, controlling things". The music video of this song was filmed by

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Sam Fleischner, which was the second video released for the promotion of the album.

History

On March 30, 2012, the band premiered "Alien Days", at a show in

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, at the Festival Estereo Picnic. On March 11, 2013, MGMT confirmed on their Twitter account that a

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release would be a cassette tape (with download card) of the studio version of "Alien Days", which became available on April 20. On March 22, 2013, RSD confirmed that this single will be a Record Store Day exclusive limited release. On April 17, the band previewed the song in a stop motion video showing the unpacking of the cassette.
On October 31 the band premiered video via Noisey.

Track listing

Personnel

Andrew VanWyngarden Andrew Wells VanWyngarden (born February 1, 1983) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitar player and songwriter for the band MGMT, praised for (according to ''Interview Magazine'') "an uncanny knack for producing pop music that s ...

– vocals, guitar, bass, drums *

Ben Goldwasser Benjamin Nicholas Hunter Goldwasser (born December 17, 1982) is an American songwriter and musician in the psychedelic rock band MGMT, for which he primarily plays keyboards and sings. In 2009, his song "Electric Feel" (co-written with bandmate ...

– synths and samples * Trevor – Child vocals

Notes

*A Trevor is the son of Cool Little Music Shop's owner at Fredonia, NY where the band purchase some of their instruments.

References

External links

Official website
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