Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

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Congratulation on the 6.8 in Pitchfork, MGMT

Brooker T Buckingham, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Adam Bruneau, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link

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

dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Missed opportunity for poop/fart 2x joke.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link

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

mizzell, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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!

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link

SPACEMEN TWEE!

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 16 April 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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.

Mordy, Friday, 30 April 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Jamie_ATP, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link

We're not that cool unfortunately

Jamie_ATP, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Congratulation to MGMT on being too cool for ATP.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

So while I still think the album mostly sucked, being exposed to it again made me realize there are some cool "moments" sprinkled throughout... but none that add up to a cool song.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Been listening to "Congratulations" a bit more. I think I like it even more than the first album. It's really grown on me. The title track is still my favorite but "I Found a Whistle" and "Lady Dada's Nightmare" are my current fave jamz. This record is far better than it gets credit for.

Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 June 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Also about 70% of "Siberian Breaks" is top notch!

Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 June 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWawd9Vvpb8&feature=player_embedded

Cunga, Monday, 21 June 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, Virginia, they are covering the Clean.

Cunga, Monday, 21 June 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link

covering the Clean's not making them any more credible

tres vorbei Bestie (micarl), Monday, 21 June 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link

As predicted, MGMT's oddball album isn't exactly tearing up the charts-- it currently sits at number 166 on Billboard's Top 200, three spots behind Ariel Pink's Before Today. Weird times.

mizzell, Monday, 21 June 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link

covering the Clean's not making them any more credible

Not making whom any more credible: the Clean or MGMT?

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link

congratulation to mgmt for covering the clean

kaká flocká flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Not making whom any more credible: the Clean or MGMT?

well, considering The Clean have about 30 great songs as appose to 1 ok one, who do you think?

tres vorbei Bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

mgmt late night tales has an excellent track list... v impressed for them including the bix

the men who stare at gotye (electricsound), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

wow yeah Laughing Boy by Copey! love that one.

piscesx, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

New album coming out. I re-listened to "Congratulations" recently and while it didn't wow me as much as when it came out I still really really like it.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link

"Congratulation" in this thread title always made me lol

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

Aw hell, "Someone's Missing" is probably my fave track of theirs. But mostly just for the Jackson 5-style ending.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15334-alien-days/

Hard to tell if this is a proper indicator of what the next LP will sound like since it was a Record Store Day release, but it's, uhh...pretty lame.

Whatever, though. Not going to begrudge these guys for going down the road of their choice, but I have better things to do.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link

I like it it's good

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link

i like it too. i'm glad they are building on their last album instead of retreating back to a more accessible sound. tbh, i loved congratulations from the start and i didn't understand what people were talking about when they said it was "weird" or "challenging." to me it seemed like a really great psych pop album. i listened to it a zillion times.

Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link

i mean "plants...as far as i know/ are still bending...towards the light!" is a classic lyric.

Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link

This sounds alright.
Could do without the Fridmann/Lips drum sound, but it's nice that it isn't a double back to what made them cake early on.

Liked the last album quite a bit... never really enjoyed the first album.

'Congratulations' is the 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh'/'Beauty Stab' of the p4k era, right?

mr.raffles, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link

more like the Don't Stand Me Down

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

The last album was really great. Hoping they come up w more good melodies/psych-outs.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link

yea congratulations is a sick record, hope it gets another chance as time goes on

yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link

not optimistic about new record though, getting slammed/poo-pooed/ignored for going out on a limb and making a weird(er) album after a pop smash seems to do a number on a band's head... (blue album to pinkerton to green album, mellon collie to adore to machina). they'll either over or under compensate

yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link

it sounds like these guys are desperate to be weird. which sucks because they can actually write some great pop songs but they don't do the weird thing very well imo.

wk, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

^ this

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

I'm fine with weird/outsider stuff when it doesn't sound labored.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

i love congratulations, but this song sounds very dull

mizzell, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

it's like they want to be ariel pink but are going about it backwards. they should write a whole bunch of great catchy songs but perform and record them in a weird amateur bedroom kind of way instead of writing weak meandering songs and then doing these big slick productions around them.

wk, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

bleah, this song is horrid. did the last album sound like this, like doilied-up indie psych?

I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link

wk otm

I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link

www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=96168#unread

nostormo, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link

oh you made a new thread: MGMT (s/t 2013)

Bee OK, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link

i don't agree with this "trying to be weird" narrative. congratulations had eccentric elements, but the hooks were there; songs like "song for dan treacy" "someone's missing" and the title track are total earworms. i think one of the things people responded to in oracular spectacular was this sort of groovy wiccan undercurrent, which was way more 60s than most 2000s indie, and i think they just are continuing to refine that san francisco sound. i mean "i found a whistle that works like a charm/ and when my noose is tied i can blow it/ and fall right into your arms / fifteen centuries of dissolution and grief/ and return a yellow trickster and a thief." classic psychadelic Odin reference, the god of the hanged. the album reminds me of new hope pennsylvania.

Pat Finn, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 04:51 (eleven years ago) link

people talk about this album like it's jandek or something but in actuality it is a total joy. i hope they get "weirder" with each new release. also, this isn't noted very often, but the production on congratulations is way better than on oracular spectacular, which sounds really bright and metallic for some reason. i want to hear it remastered.

Pat Finn, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link

I think people are talking about the new song, not Congratulations. You think the new song has hooks? I never got into congrats, but my favorite songs on oracular are The Handshake and Weekend Wars which are both somewhat adventurous but still great pop songs.

I mean I guess The Handshake hinted that they were going to screw the label over and spend their advance on acid, but this is not the way to go about it. You can make an uncommercial "fuck you" album that's still great, but somehow I don't think this new one is going to be their Dopesmoker.

wk, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link

maybe not "hooks" on that one, but it seems pretty straightforward melodically and not at all "out there". what it reminds me of most is yoshimi-era flaming lips. idk, it is like camp psychadelia and it sounds really into what it is, if that makes sense.

Pat Finn, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link

i just think their music is fun, and their second album moreso than the first one, much as i love "Kids." this song seems like it is in a similar vein to congratulations.

Pat Finn, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link


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