MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [Vinyl]
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Artist: MGMTEdition: Vinyl
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Time to Pretend
- Weekend Wars
- Youth
- Electric Feel
- Kids
- 4th Dimensional Transition
- Pieces of What
- Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
- Handshake
- Future Reflections
Music reviews of Oracular Spectacular [Vinyl]
Music Review: MGMT
Rating: 4 Stars
Heard "Kids" on radio and took a chance on buying CD. Also MGMT is on Kid Cudi CD, song is "Pursuit of Happiness" and it is one of my favorites.
I like the MGMT CD, lots of weird keyboards effects which are cool. Sort of a old school sound, Pink Floyd in some effects. Recording quality is not the best though, but maybe that's the sound they were after.
Description of Oracular Spectacular [Vinyl]
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
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