MGMT – Someone's Missing (2014 Remaster)

In 2014, MGMT released a vinyl reissue of their sophomore album Congratulations for Record Store Day. The recordings were newly remastered from the original analog tapes.

But Who? and Why? Just A Thought? A Feeling? ...... Or a moment of Doubt. Laying in wait, but revealing a gateway. A Door. Consciousness aligns.

Produced by MGMT and Sonic Boom
Written by Andrew VanWyngarden & Ben Goldwasser
Lyrics by Andrew VanWyngarden

Engineered by Billy Bennett in High Falls NY, Malibu, CA, and in Vacation Island Recording (Brooklyn, NY) and Blanker Unsinn (Brooklyn, NY)

Additional Engineering by Matt Boynton at Vacation Island Recording (Brooklyn, NY), Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios (Cassadaga, NY) and MGMT

Assistant Engineered in Malibu by Daniel Johnson

Mixing and Additional Engineering by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios (Cassadaga, NY)

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)

Art Direction, Design and Photography by Josh Cheuse
Cover painting by Anthony Ausgang

The people who played on this album are:

Andrew VanWyngarden:
vocals / guitar / drums 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 / bass 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 / synths 2, 3, 6, 8 / casio guitar 7 / piano 2 / fake flute 4 / harmonica 6 / electric sitar 3, 6 / percussion

Ben Goldwasser:
synths & samples 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 / organ 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 / piano 4, 8 / omnichord 1, 2, 5 / numerology 6 / additional vocals 2, 4, 7 / percussion

James Richardson:
guitar 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 / synths 2 / casio guitar 7 / synth drums 8 / glockenspiel 2 / sax 5 / pan pipes 6 / additional vocals 7 / percussion

Matt Asti:
guitars 1, 4 , 6 / bass 4, 5, 6, 7 / piano 5 / additional vocals 7 / field recordings and treatments / percussion

Will Berman:
drums 1, 2, 4 / guitars 4, 6 / bass 4 / additional vocals, percussion and synths

Sonic Boom:
master of ceremonies / modular synth 2 / harmonica and percussion treatments 5 / first documented use of the EMT 250 reverb glitch* 6 / gakken sx-150 7

Britta Phillips:
additional vocals 1

Jennifer Herrema:
additional vocals 2, 4

Gillian Rivers:
strings 1, 5, 6, 8, 9

Dave Kadden:
oboes and sundries 6

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Someone's telling the toll to me
I'm cut and I'm weeping like a rubber tree
but I don't care who's left behind
lost revelations that I'll never find

in the long hall pipes are whispering
blues prepared for anti-christening

somewhere there's an honest soul
to mirror teeth where neon lures troll
and what's extinct might come alive
a purple smoke in some internal shrine

with a long sigh let the hissing in
stones deformed by gentle kissing and
all the closed eyes start to glisten
but it feels like someone's missing
yeah it feels like someone's missing