Photo by Danny Clinch

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden have finally announced the new MGMT album. MGMT is out September 17 via Columbia Records.

Earlier this year, the duo told Rolling Stone that their upcoming album was recorded as a duo-- not with a full band like on 2010's *Congratulations. *The album was recorded at producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios in upstate New York.

The album includes Record Store Day single "Alien Days" (which can be heard above), a cover of "Introspection" by the 60s garage band Faine Jade, and two songs they've previously performed live: "Mystery Disease" and "Your Life Is a Lie". Goldwasser told Rolling Stone that they're "not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it... There's no illusion on [Columbia Records'] part that that we're going to turn into a Top 40 band."

MGMT will be accompanied by "unique visual elements to accompany and illustrate the new music" via something called "the Optimizer", which "provides listeners of the album with a simultaneous aural and optical listening experience featuring video and CGI work," according to a press release.

Music videos for "Your Life Is a Lie", "Alien Days", and "Cool Song No. 2" are all in the works.

MGMT are currently on the summer festival circuit, with dates planned through the end of the year. Schedule below. A U.S. tour will be announced soon that will take place in November and December.

MGMT:

01 Alien Days

02 Cool Song No. 2

03 Mystery Disease

04 Introspection

05 Your Life Is a Lie

06 A Good Sadness

07 Astro-Mancy

08 I Love You Too, Death

09 Plenty Of Girls in the Sea

10 An Orphan of Fortune

MGMT:

07-03 Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest

07-05-07 Kelona, British Columbia - Waterfront Park

07-09 Quebec City, Quebec - Quebec City Summer Festival

07-12 Lansing, MI - Common Ground Music Festival

07-13 Cincinnati, OH - Bunbury Music Festival

08-24 Monterey, CA - First City Festival

08-25 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest

08-26 Las Vegas, NV - Cosmopoliton

08-29 Davis, CA - Mondavi Center

08-31 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater

09-01 Troutdale, OR - Edgefield Amphitheater

09-02 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot

09-04 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory

09-05 Salt Lake City, UT - Twilight Concert Series

09-06 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium

09-26 Cologne, Germany Live Music Hall *

09-27 Brussels, Belgium - AB *

09-29 Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus *

09-30 Oslo, Norway - SentrumScene *

10-01 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega Main Hall *

10-03 Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus *

10-04 Vienna, Austria - Gasometer *

10-05 Munich, Germany - Kesselhaus *

10-06 Zurich, Switzerland - Komplex 457 *

10-08 Paris, France - Olympia *

10-09 Hamburg, Germany - Docks *

10-10 Utrecht, Netherlands - Vredenburg Leidsche *

10-12 Glasgow, Scotland - 02 ABC *

10-13 Wolverhampton, England - Civic Hall *

10-14 Manchester, England - O2 Apollo Manchester *

10-16 London, England - Forum *

10-19 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre *

with Guards

Revisit the video for "Kids":