Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

but for the sake of this thread, I will do it

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That song about The Whistle sounds OK.

Ok I'm giving the whole thing a second chance.

1. It's Working - This actually sounds decent and makes for a good opener. A few nods to psychedelia... oh hey a harpsichord! Will we get eastern instruments too? Mmm... seems not. It got a tad annoying towards the end and even tho the chorus got drilled add nauseum, when it was all over I couldn't remember anything about it.
2. Song for Dan Treacy - I'll be honest, I've no idea who Dan Treacy is but I thought this sounded like a throwaway Of Montreal song. Got a bit better towards the end as it started to accumulate energy but it's been a confusing listen so far.
3. Someone's Missing - Hey there's the eastern instruments! The bassline helps shape an otherwise amorphous piece. Ends up being too short and uninspired. First revelation that they didn't gave a fuck when recording this and I'm starting to wonder why should I.
4. Flash Delirium - Nice mood but as the song progresses it starts to sound like a bunch of half assed ideas that dont fit one another, I'm starting to sense a trend in here. The ending was terrible, MGMT should never resort to screaming.
5. I Found a Whistle - Probably the most anthemic thing on the album so far. I thought it was good the first time I heard it but this time it felt like annoying hippie drivel to my ears. The psych influence starts to grate.
6. Siberian Breaks - Best song on the record. Lovely synths here and there. Seems to channel Flaming Lips somewhere round the middle. I like many of the individual ideas in here but don't think it works that well as a whole. Good but not enough too keep me interested through the whole 12 minutes. I don't see returning to it very often.
7. Brian Eno - Sounds to me like some sort of terrible rockabilly band trying to hommage space age pop. Didn't paid attention to the lyrics but song is incredibly annoying. I suppose this is what johnnyo refers to as the humor in this record.
8. Lady Dada's Nightmare - Meandering synth pads, not too much of a song.
9. Congratulations - Somehow reminds me of VU's Loaded for the first minutes and I like that, as it progresses, though, it starts to sound as detached and uninterested as the claps that end the record.

If I have to be positive the best thing I could say about this record is that it has a great album cover and the production is a step up from the blown-up sound from Oracular. As for the music, they need to rein it in a little bit... I'd like to isolate a few moments and ideas that could've made a decent piece and throwaway the most part of it.

12-minute thing in middle? may have to hear this

The interview makes them sound like cunts. Stupid cunts at that.

Maybe they HAVE been smoking too much of Sonic's chronic.

this album reminds me of 3-way era lilys.

hedgehogs have the best weed

lol this thread

looking forward to rereading this thread w/ johnnyo 3 yrs from now when hes zinging & posting about dance bobbins

this isn't terrible or anything but it is lacking in the monster hook department

The more I listen to this the more I like it. Lots of little hooks that over time get more and more interesting. LOVE LOVE LOVE the title song. Great slow jam. The first couple of songs I now detect a really strong Tromp Le Monde-era Pixies influence, especially the first song. "I've Got A Whistle" is pretty rad.

And I really like "Lady Dada" a whole lot. It's kind of like a Bruce Haack version of "White Christmas" getting derailed and lost in soft noise.

Still think "Brian Eno" is a bit annoying.

The new video scares me tho. Not good.

What other recent band (Fallout Boy? Panic at the Disco?) did this, where they essentially cut a light and loopy sixties psychedelia album?

This is decent on first listen -- I'm not really sure the world needed another one of these albums, but that's quite alright.

wow, the new video makes me want to take back the nice things i said about the album.

So does this thing have a bit of a Spacemen/Spectrum vibe to it then?

not at all - whatever Sonic Boom influence is on this record is nigh undetectable to my ears

well that sucks.

yeah I was kinda disappointed on that score too

I downloaded this expecting to hate it but I'm finding myself wanting to go back to it a lot. The vocals remind me a lot of the guy from Wire especially on the second track and about 3 minutes into Siberian Breaks. I already like it a lot more than the first album, me being in the 'it only had three good songs' camp.

I bet the writers at the NME are having a hard time right now trying to decide if they should give this a rating of 5 or 10.

Still think "Brian Eno" is a bit annoying.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:33 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark

I totally agree with this, there's something that really annoys me about the way he sings Brian Eno.

Sonic Boom is in a huge I-collect-Nazi-memorabilia phase at present. To the point where he's actually wearing shit out that could ruffle some serious feathers among folk who don't take kindly to that sort of thing. I kind of hope this MGMT album shifts in huge numbers and the Brit tabloids get all indignant and do some kind of expose on him. Preferably with a Hitler stache 'shopped on at some point.

eh kinda not worried about Sonic being a Nazi

"drug addled shithead" is a more pressing concern

junkies not so good at rounding people up in camps knowhutimean

last two Spectrum releases were awesome. (war sucks; cap'n memphis)
Boom is on-point wrt his own work at least

there is a ventriloquist's dummy with a hitler stache in the video....

Spectrum were amazing live in London last month, although Kember, Treacy and several others in attendance looked like they'd recently spent some time in a concentration camp.

What other recent band (Fallout Boy? Panic at the Disco?) did this, where they essentially cut a light and loopy sixties psychedelia album?

I believe you are thinking of the last Panic at the Disco album, where they dropped the exclamation point and went all 60s/Kinks pop. Worked surprisingly well on some of the songs, I liked that album.

Could a Sonic/Lemmy collab be in the works?

makes sense. "lady dada's nightmare" sounds like sonic's been listening to hawkwind's "goat willow" and "wind of change" some lately

and captain memphis sounds suspiciously like jim morrison. "the old cow dies" could be a doors song. "santa monica sunday and the big one still coming, another hotel room window high overlooking freeway arteries. . . ."

what is dance bobbins?

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i think everyone who wants to like this album more than they actually do and especially everyone who wants to hear some sonic boom influence should check out DELOREAN

Guys I am listening to this album on whoismgmt.com and it is *really* bad.

yup

it seems kind of amazing that these guys are *headlining* Red Rocks outside of Denver this summer. Are they really that popular?

hmm is this a recorder solo I hear

Congratulation on the 6.8 in Pitchfork, MGMT

So weird that nobody is saying "Congratulations" the track could be a single. It's pretty badass, if a slow jam...

This time out, MGMT aren't crafting pop; they're Creating fArt.

Missed opportunity for poop/fart 2x joke.

congratulation to mgmt and columbia for needlessly pressing a 43 minute album on 2 lps and charging $30 for it.

If I wrote for some online music mag I'd be tempted to refer to MGMT, in my review of this new album (to which I've listened exactly once), as "Spacemen Twee" -- tell me that's not an apt description!

SPACEMEN TWEE!

Oracular Spectacular is still such a great album. It's a really warm summer'y day over here and I've been blasting it all day and it's been perfect.

Congratulation MGMT on booking three nights at brixton academy (that's 15,000 people) before people realise it's time for you to disappear.

You mean, ATP is hosting MGMT for three nights at Brixton?

We're not that cool unfortunately

Congratulation to MGMT on being too cool for ATP.