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Oracular Spectacular | 
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| Artist: Mgmt
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 109
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 719512
UPC: 886971951226
EAN: 0886971951226
ASIN: B0010VD7EO
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Time To Pretend | | • | Weekend Wars | | • | The Youth | | • | Electric Feel | | • | Kids | | • | 4th Dimensional Transition | | • | Pieces Of What | | • | Of Moons, Birds & Monsters | | • | The Handshake | | • | Future Reflections |
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Amazon.co.uk
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
Album Description
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 74 more reviews...
 Great Album. August 15, 2008
Just had my first listen and I think this is a great album.
MGMT has a great sound. NewWaveGlamRock is back MGMT!
The Band That May Save Rock and Roll? July 26, 2008
Every few years a band comes along to blow everything out of the water and MGMT are that band. It's totally fresh and new and there's really nothing like it. The only thing it could even be compared to is if David Bowie and of Montreal had a baby, and that baby took lots of acid. "Time To Pretend" almost reminds me of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in a way. As soon as you hear the opening to the song you know it can't be anything else( I won't get into how it also speaks to the "disillusioned youth"). "Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters may be the best song on the album, along with "Pieces of What" If you want something new and exciting give this a try, you won't regret it.
Great Second Album July 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have MGMT's real first album, the one you could only buy over the internet or at their shows. I've been listening to it religiously for a couple of years, all seven songs. I'm glad to see that Time to Pretend and Kids made it to this album. But what happened to my favorites, Boogie Down and Destrokk? Either way, it's fantastic to see these guys get broader distribution. I'm outside of their generation, having grown up with 80's alternative bands influenced by VU (okay, and listening to a lot VU and other 70's psych bands along the way), and these guys have sure got talent. It's refreshing to see in today's music. For a treat, go to youtube and search both Boogie Down and Destrokk. "High fi fellas and low fi chicks" brilliant.
brilliant July 19, 2008
this album has single-handedly renewed my faith in my generation. for the last seven years or so, it seems like less and less original and intelligent music has been made, as mindless booty-shaking pop became the standard in every genre from rnb to indie rock.
MGMT's album takes those cultural trends breathes in new life and soul. it's a whirlwind tour through the musical fringes of the 70s, 80s and 90s, all permeated with a psychedelic haze that recalls Jane Fonda's freakish science fiction film Barbarella. but unlike Blur's rockumentary style albums, Oracular Spectacular is not a historical showcase but an intensely personal vision.
what really makes this album, tho, is not just the seemless blend of electronic, psychedelia, new wave and funk, but the insightful and even poetic lyrics. listen carefully and you might learn something. I know I did.
Shades of Floyd with a dash of Flaming Lips July 18, 2008
They certainly look different and the gentlemen from Management certainly sound different from most as well. Two that they do bring to mind are Pink Floyd and The Flaming Lips. It's a trippy sound that is good to mellow out to while you are just chilling though I wouldn't want to get on the excerise bike to their strains. I'm sure they would be happy to do nearly as well as either the aformentioned bands and I'm sure they will be around for a few more albums yet.
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