Article: POP ROCK MUSIC WITH BITE MGMT Vampire Weekend

You wait three years for a really exciting new band to emerge from New York, and then two come along at once. Taking to the Koko stage, Camden at the unearthly hour of 7.30, on the bottom of an NME awards show bill top-heavy with inferior turns, MGMT have that faraway look that suggests their ambitions will not be comfortably constrained by this particular venue.

The effect is accentuated by the anthemic reach of their songwriting, which takes the monumental vacuity of Coldplay or Razorlight, collapses it in on itself, and then invites the survivors to dance around in the rubble. MGMT's implausibly named singer Andrew VanWyngarden has some of the open-faced, trustworthy allure of Richard ...