Days That Got Away

It had been five years since MGMT dropped an album, and fans weren't exactly clamoring for another record. The duo hadn't really made anything worthwhile since its debut album "Oracular Spectacular" in 2007. So I had little expectation that "Little Dark Age" released this week would be any good either. I was wrong. While it wasn't transcendent by any means, it was very listenable, a quality very much lacking from the band's previous two albums. This is far and away the band's best effort since that debut, and was quite a sea change from the previous two records. I enjoyed the lyrics, the beats and the melodies in various tracks. "James" had a surprisingly ostentatious beat, and a great melody too. An instrumental, "Days That Got Away" was the best track on the album, which is not something that happens any more. To close it all out, "Hand It Over" had a very Beach Boys vibe (in a good way). If MGMT can continue to improve upon this album, I wouldn't want to wait five more years for the next one.

Still no word on a new photo sharing site yet. Here are the photos from Feb. 1-6, which include Royalton boys/girls basketball and Pierz/Holdingford wrestling.