Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

Also like the goth vibes in some of these but they usually mess up the landing for me

yeah tbh i was expecting more dark synthpop from the marketing. not quite that dark compared to something like Fad Gadget or The Cure or something. for instance the Ariel Pink song just sounds like a regular song but they are singing about death so now it's goth.

I love this album. I really didn't see this coming at all!

My son is obsessed with this album. It apparently has very high meme value among the teenager set.

i'm really into this

Hey, I haven’t heard the new record yet, but I just wanted to pop in and say that, um, based on the evidence of this thread 2010 ILX was pretty mean and bad.

wow, Me and Michael is something!

^^

Liked the debut a lot

Loved "Congratulations"

Left totally cold by album 3

Totally stunned by this one. I cannot stop listening to it! If "Me and Michael" isn't my most listened track of 2018, it's gonna be a helluva year.

Liked the debut a lot

Loved "Congratulations"

Left totally cold by album 3

this is exactly how i feel. so i'm very excited to hear this new one in full tonite

That's similar to my feelings, but I only really loved the three hits from the first album. The new one has overtaken Congratulations as my favourite album of theirs. The year's first big surprise.

i still love Congratulations above all. the new album is nice but feels way too short. 5 songs i love and the other 5, eh, they're ok.

the whole stretch "Me and Michael"/"TSLAMP"/"James" is the highlight of the record imo. "Me and Michael" absolutely rules and this can't be stated enough. those lead synths are so sparkly!

excited to check this out but i just heard a new track by simon doom and it was the worst thing ive ever heard

excited to hear remixes when they come out, keep me posted thx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=3OVr1rt3Dxw

^ full album

I think I like the True Faith version of Me and Michael even more. https://youtu.be/_zK_m6EgVSQ

congratulations to MGMT

When you die is solid

the way album ends, when all of "Hand It Over" goes thru a super intense flanger, is really awesome, amazing ear candy for me

need to listen to this more before i comment further

It's too soon to poll this album, isn't it? I'm feeling a very strong attachment to at least half of these songs after listening to the album for the last 2 weeks.
Have I totally slept on this band (I've never listened to an MGMT album before, with the exception of their LateNightTales mix) or did they suddenly get really good?

no they released their masterpiece 8 years ago

this album is good but i fear too little too late... this should've come out in 2013

I dunno, I'm a big Congrats fan but I think the new one towers above it.

Lou Reed Turned Down an MGMT Collaboration, Told Them to Fire Their Managers: The band say they asked the late icon to appear on Congratulations

While talking about working on the album, they revealed that they approached Lou Reed to contribute vocals to their track “Lady Dada’s Nightmare.” “He pretty much said it didn’t need it,” they reveal. “And then he talked about how we also didn’t need managers, and our managers were there.” Soon after, they ran into Reed at a dog show (where they were dressed as dandies)

When your small is like people are strange meets pink Floyd. Love the lyric about curling into a ball, funny song

The bubbling synths on James are a lot like the style stereolab used on ffs - interlock iirc

My son is obsessed with this album. It apparently has very high meme value among the teenager set.

My 13-yr-old as well. I'm taking him and his younger brother to see them in Nashville next month, should be fun. (I like the album a lot, too.)

love the sonic details on this album, like the cartoon falling down stairs piano on "when you're small" and the Wendy Carlos clockwork orange styled synth parts on "Hand It Over"

this album is brilliant. love, love, love "When You Die."

The concert last night was as much fun as I expected. Did most of the new album, plus four Oracular, two from Congratulations and "Alien Days." (Plus a cover of "The Neverending Story.") "Flash Delirium" in concert is A+. My kids loved the whole show.

that sounds like an awesome time. i didn't know if they were a good live band or not but it does sound like a hell of a time.

Yeah, tight band, great light show, they put a lot of work into it. It helped that the hall has great acoustics, but they sounded great.

i'm buying tickets tomorrow and probably wouldn't have if Tipsy didn't say how good they were live. so thanks Tipsy Morthra!

Me and Michael wouldn't sound out of place on an old school M83 record

I'm officially going, so stoked for this

"I’m not that nice
I’m mean and I’m evil
Don’t call me nice"

i can't stop playing this album.

"GO. FUCK. YOUR. SELF. U. HERD. ME. RIGHT."

This is growing on me

the only indie album I have on rotation

going to see these guys in one week, i'm so excited. i now know the new album inside and out. i actually don't know Congratulation that well, only the debut and the new album.

You should listen to it, it's one of the best albums of the decade

"Flash Delirium" in particular is my favorite MGMT song. (And video.)

yeah it really is. title track, song for dan treacy, it's working are all completely classic

Buddy saw them and said they did a video mocking those who only like their 3 huge hits. Yeah - only the hits you made your careers on :-/

seeing these guys tonight, so excited. have no idea what to expect.

It'll be good!

at The Observatory Orange County, Costa Mesa, CA, USA

1. She Works Out Too Much
2. Little Dark Age
3. When You Die
4. Time to Pretend
5. James
6. Alien Days
7. Flash Delirium
8. Kids
9. The Youth
10. TSLAMP
11. Electric Feel
12. Me and Michael
13. Hand It Over

Encore:

14. When You're Small
15. Congratulations

May 16, 2018

the show was amazing. it leaned heavily on the new album witch was fine with me. it was all techno color and made you want to dance. the did play their three big hits and the place was packed. they had video going on with a smaller HD screen in front of a bigger screen and flashed all sorts of stuff on it. they were pretty psychedelic for the most part. fun show and will see these guys again. they should be massive in this type of music climatic (2018).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGN_G7cU6k