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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.
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.
"4th Dimensional Transistion" embodies excessive-pyschedelia in an imaginatively self-deprecating manner. 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. They then paint over these influences with an 8-bit pyschedelic tapestry that perfectly suits the impressionistic gospel VanWyngarden spins in his lyrics.They typically deal with us twenty-somethings and our common struggle with coming to grips with growing up in a society where eternal childhood was served up by media as an actual possiblity. "Kids" is subversive dance-pop that tries to instil the moral of self-control. It's perfectly paced and executed, has something very interesting to say in every song, and just seems to capture the essence of the late 2000s. It's so easy to dream of excess, of perfect jungle-boogie hideaways where the animatronic funk band never stops playing,the electricity and drugs last forever, and the repercussions never come, but how do you justify the pursuit of this unobtainable lifestyle.
To round it out, "Pieces of What." is powerfuly simple folk, just a man lookin for home. 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. "Weekend Wars" plays like the gospel for the 2012 world. MGMT does so by concocting music that plays like a revelation onto the boundless possibilities inherent to life, even the negative ones, and the truth that lies in hope that keeps us all bouyant.Every song is unique, and represents a highlight in some genre of music. "Electric Feel" is unabashed funk, as imagined by hippies thousand of years ago and imbued with enough disco soul to survive the collapse of the universe itself. I can not praise this album enough.
good synth, good voices, great lyrics. seriously, i have 'time to pretend' stuck in my head all the time. love it. in a good way though. if you like santigold, flaminglips, that kind of thing you're pretty much guaranteed to like these guys. 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.
MGMT sounds a lot like they tried to become a new Animal Collective. Yes, I suppose this album is creative. Similar timbres of their voices and the pshycedelic-electronica-pop was almost cookie cutter. 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, Cut Copy, CSS, Kennedy (on For President), Grand National, Faded Paper Figures, or Bogart and the Addictives.
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