MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
List Price:
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $2.99 (23%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $6.87 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: MGMTEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Time to Pretend
- Weekend Wars
- The Youth
- Electric Feel
- Kids
- 4th Dimensional Transition
- Pieces of What
- Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
- The Handshake
- Future Reflections
Music reviews of Oracular Spectacular
Music Review: I'm in Management
Rating: 3 Stars
I really like this management band for a few reasons. First, they play super cool alternative rock that I can quote to my country music friends to make them sound all stupid and stuff. I'm in management for my company so I can relate to what these cats are speaking about. There are times where Bob will call a 9am roundtable about garble reports and I'll just yell at him that it's time to pretend. When it's time to pretend, I pretend my office is a 17th century castle and I'm the King. I declare war on the other offices around me and go around passing gas in them. They don't like it, but I'm an awesome mammal.
There are songs on this I don't get, but let me clue you in on a little secret. I lack the intelligence needed to comprehend many things. I'm totally awesome and good looking, so I've moved up the corporate ladder. I make enough money to buy my band asschowder new instruments every crescent moon. We tour arby's locations throughout Iowa with wholesome angst polka. Average pulled me over and asked me directions to runza last week and I said, "I don't deal with you."
Description of Oracular Spectacular
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. Here is a band that treats dizzy cross-eyed awe and a vast bounding sense of sonic weightlessness as their yardstick, jostling to surpass themselves on a track-by-track basis and aiming for the musical equivalent of performing somersaults in tye-dye t-shirts off the rings of Jupiter. MGMT seemingly submit this debut album as an application to acquire and even supersede The Flaming Lips' previously uncontested mantle as spiritual leaders of over-sized Technicolor psychedelic-indie with a soul, weird but not so weird that swelling crowds and even flirtations with the charts aren't a foregone conclusion. "Time to Pretend" opens and sets a tone for the record, producer David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) providing a familiar expanse for them to riff across with bull's-eye synths, massive drums and their twist on the template--retro 80s electro and abstract shapes, see Suicide and the Talking Heads for reference. "The Youth" is centred around a hypnotically looping refrain that recalls Pink Floyd and David Bowie, as interpreted by a mellow Secret Machines and the brilliant "Pieces of What" is Ryan Adams spinning through cosmos with classic Neil Young on his headphones. "Future Reflections" meanwhile stand on its hands on a line somewhere in-between XTC and Ween. Thrillingly eclectic, endlessly colourful and never predictable. It's all a bit ridiculous, but indeed spectacularly so. --James Berry
General CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Jenny Lewis - Acid TongueRelease date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.86
Price in other shops:
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,Release date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.13
Price in other shops:
Sarah McLachlan - Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlanRelease date: 2008-10-07; Music CD
Best price: $12.50
Price in other shops:
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky - Deluxe Edition CD/ DVDRelease date: 2008-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $18.97
Price in other shops:
Keane - Perfect SymmetryRelease date: 2008-10-14; Music CD
Best price: $8.87
Price in other shops:
Oasis - Dig Out Your SoulRelease date: 2008-10-07; Music CD
Best price: $7.69
Price in other shops:
Sarah McLachlan - Closer-The Best of Sarah McLachlanRelease date: 2008-10-07; Music CD
Best price: $7.75
Price in other shops:
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal ThingsRelease date: 2008-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.38
Price in other shops:
Kings of Leon - Only By The NightRelease date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.64
Price in other shops:
Coldplay - Viva La VidaRelease date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.67
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
My Morning Jacket - Evil UrgesRelease date: 2008-06-10; Music CD
Best price: $8.80
Price in other shops:
Portishead - ThirdRelease date: 2008-04-29; Music CD
Best price: $6.53
Price in other shops:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet FoxesRelease date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.51
Price in other shops:
Radiohead - In RainbowsRelease date: 2008-01-01; Music CD
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
Consolers Of The LonelyRelease date: 2008-03-25; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Beck - Modern GuiltRelease date: 2008-07-08; Music CD
Best price: $6.44
Price in other shops:
Coldplay - Viva La VidaRelease date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.31
Price in other shops:
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow StairsRelease date: 2008-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $7.26
Price in other shops:
Santogold - SantogoldRelease date: 2008-04-29; Music CD
Best price: $6.98
Price in other shops:
Vampire Weekend - Vampire WeekendRelease date: 2008-01-29; Music CD
Best price: $8.89
Price in other shops: