What's the Deal? Hymns fortify their Southern moonshine with a more roughshod, electric sound, distilling a party album for the roots-rock set.

Who? MGMT -- commonly known as the Management -- is Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two self-described art provocateurs who met as undergraduates at Wesleyan University in 2002. Without ever intending to form a band, the duo began experimenting with electronic music, testing the conventional limits of songwriting and