Alien Days

"Alien Days"
Single by MGMT
from the album MGMT
ReleasedApril 20, 2013
GenrePsychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic pop
Length5:10
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser
MGMT singles chronology
"Congratulations"
(2010)
"Alien Days"
(2013)
"Your Life Is a Lie"
(2013)
Music video
"Alien Days" on YouTube

"Alien Days" is the first single released from MGMT, the third album by MGMT, 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".[1] The music video of this song was filmed by indie director Sam Fleischner, which was the second video released for the promotion of the album.[2]

  1. ^ David Browne (January 29, 2013). "MGMT Get Even Wilder on Synth-Heavy Third Album | Music News". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "MGMT SET TO RELEASE SELF-TITLED ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 17 | the Official MGMT Site". Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved June 26, 2012.