Oracular Spectacular
by: MGMT
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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 acrosswith 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
Album Description:
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
Album Description:
Japanese pressing.Forty years after the Summer of Love (and 30 years after the Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled Pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. The pair was drawn to the music of other duos and found themselves incorporating the implications of the hallucinatory power-twee of the Incredible String Band, the roaring subway minimalist Electronica of Suicide, the silky Pop-Soul of Hall & Oates, the pulsing narcotic trance of Spacemen 3, the avant-garde Industrial romanticism of Royal Trux and much more into the constantly evolving sounds of MGMT. This version includes enhanced version of music video, photo gallery, & instructive video.Sony. 2008.
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 acrosswith 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
Album Description:
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
Album Description:
Japanese pressing.Forty years after the Summer of Love (and 30 years after the Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled Pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. The pair was drawn to the music of other duos and found themselves incorporating the implications of the hallucinatory power-twee of the Incredible String Band, the roaring subway minimalist Electronica of Suicide, the silky Pop-Soul of Hall & Oates, the pulsing narcotic trance of Spacemen 3, the avant-garde Industrial romanticism of Royal Trux and much more into the constantly evolving sounds of MGMT. This version includes enhanced version of music video, photo gallery, & instructive video.Sony. 2008.
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- NEO PSYCHEDELIA???!!! YEAH RIGHT
this over produced shirt lifter garbage is nothing close to Neo Psychedelia real neo psychedelia was stuff like the lime spiders,dukes of stratosphere etc. this is not psychedelia in anyway because real psychedelia is trippy garage rawness. this sucks full stop college nerds.
Rating: 
- Ok for the Singles
The album is all over the place.The few singles that made it onto the airwaves portray a much peppier music, almost dancish.In reality, outside the singles, the album is more mellow.While good, not what I expected it to be.
Rating: 
- Essential Listening For the 21st Century
After having this rare gem of a record in my possession, and more importantly, consistently housed in my car's busted up CD-player for roughly a year I can say that "Oracular Spectacular" is a record for the ages. Kaleidescopic in sonic reach, they tread eclectic, yet familiar ground laid out by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, the Flaming Lips, and Radiohead. They then paint over these influences with an 8-bit pyschedelic tapestry that perfectly suits the ... Read More
Rating: - cannot get enough of this album!
seriously, i have 'time to pretend' stuck in my head all the time! in a good way though. if you like santigold, flaminglips, that kind of thing you're pretty much guaranteed to like these guys. good synth, good voices, great lyrics. love it. btw...they are not called management. hardcore fans of the band WILL eviscerate you if you use that word in reference to this group.
good stuff though.
Rating: - Well, you're no Animal Collective... but you tried.
MGMT sounds a lot like they tried to become a new Animal Collective.Similar timbres of their voices and the pshycedelic-electronica-pop was almost cookie cutter.Creative? Yes, I suppose this album is creative... or at least it has a couple of catchy songs.Tracks 1, 4, 5, and maybe a couple of the latter songs are terrific, but I could have saved myself the money on this band and either purchased the good songs individually, or saved myself the entire trouble and listened to more Animal Collective, ... Read More
- NEO PSYCHEDELIA???!!! YEAH RIGHTthis over produced shirt lifter garbage is nothing close to Neo Psychedelia real neo psychedelia was stuff like the lime spiders,dukes of stratosphere etc. this is not psychedelia in anyway because real psychedelia is trippy garage rawness. this sucks full stop college nerds.
- Ok for the SinglesThe album is all over the place.The few singles that made it onto the airwaves portray a much peppier music, almost dancish.In reality, outside the singles, the album is more mellow.While good, not what I expected it to be.
- Essential Listening For the 21st CenturyAfter having this rare gem of a record in my possession, and more importantly, consistently housed in my car's busted up CD-player for roughly a year I can say that "Oracular Spectacular" is a record for the ages. Kaleidescopic in sonic reach, they tread eclectic, yet familiar ground laid out by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, the Flaming Lips, and Radiohead. They then paint over these influences with an 8-bit pyschedelic tapestry that perfectly suits the ... Read More
- cannot get enough of this album!seriously, i have 'time to pretend' stuck in my head all the time! in a good way though. if you like santigold, flaminglips, that kind of thing you're pretty much guaranteed to like these guys. good synth, good voices, great lyrics. love it. btw...they are not called management. hardcore fans of the band WILL eviscerate you if you use that word in reference to this group.
good stuff though.
- Well, you're no Animal Collective... but you tried.MGMT sounds a lot like they tried to become a new Animal Collective.Similar timbres of their voices and the pshycedelic-electronica-pop was almost cookie cutter.Creative? Yes, I suppose this album is creative... or at least it has a couple of catchy songs.Tracks 1, 4, 5, and maybe a couple of the latter songs are terrific, but I could have saved myself the money on this band and either purchased the good songs individually, or saved myself the entire trouble and listened to more Animal Collective, ... Read More
