Alien Days
| "Alien Days" | ||||
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| Single by MGMT | ||||
| from the album MGMT | ||||
| Released | April 20, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | February 2011 (demo) September 2011 - June 2012 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic pop | |||
| Length | 5:10 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriters | Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser | |||
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| 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". The music video was filmed by indie director Sam Fleischner, which was the second video released for the promotion of the album. This was the first single released by MGMT since 2010's Congratulations.