Jul 11 2021
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Music history is replete with youthful innovators with a deep understanding of past music, displaying a sophisticated command of the genres they were working in. The duo behind MGMT, Andrew Van Wyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, are not that. Rather, they are clever debutantes, skimming along the surface of the last 50 years of pop music, plucking a bit of glam there, a touch of Prince there, a little disco there, some electronica here, a scintilla of psychedelia there, and weaving all these disparate elements into bright, summery pop music. They have an equal partner in Dave Fridmann, whose taste and firm hand on the keel is much appreciated. Fridmann balances analog and digital textures beautifully, and I didn't spot one single horrible synth patch, a small miracle in 2007.
Another impressive aspect of Oracular Spectacular is that the duo composed all of the tunes, played all of the instruments, and did all of the arrangements. When I looked up the album on discogs, I fully expected to see session musicians. While Wyngarden and Goldwasser would never be mistaken for virtuosos on their instruments, between them they are competent on drums, keyboards, guitars and bass, at the very least. It doesn't stop there. The pair use their voices intelligently, sometimes going for mellifluence, sometimes a Bowie-esque whine, and still others a Prince-like falsetto. Their tunes are both catchy and display a keen understanding of pop songcraft. The tunes don't always develop in predictable ways. There are surprise changes in tempo, key, and time signatures. And their arrangements are canny, combining the old and the new harmoniously. The music on Oracular Spectacular may be light, fun pop, but there is quite a bit of skill under the hood. This kind of light pop really isn't my kind of thing, but MGMT and Dave Fridmann have done a great job with the concept and material.
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Dec 19 2021
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OVRRTD.
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Jan 26 2021
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Takes me back to the days when I worked at Subway and would mop the nasty floors jamming to MGMT
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Dec 24 2020
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This might be blasphemous, but fuck it - there are shades of David Bowie in here. The hits are here, but the deeper cuts are infinitely listenable. Just an enjoyable album front to back. Best track: Kids
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Jul 28 2021
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I can't get on board with management. Bunch of boring clean shirts in their ties and polished shoes. Probably get home and expect their tea to be on the table. A downtrodden wife, who's been slaving away all day and doesn't even get a "thanks". A cottage pie, a cheap bottle of plonk and five minutes of miserable missionary. Makes me sick.
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Sep 23 2021
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Nostalgia clouded rating! This album (and more specifically "Kids") was ubiquitous when I was doing snowboard seasons. I subsequently listened to this album a lot and have grown to love it. It makes fun noises!
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Jan 30 2022
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Oracular Spectacular?....Craptacular more like it.
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Oct 08 2020
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MGMT BAAAAAAAABY
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Jun 06 2021
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Really great record. Some classic naughties singles. Fantastic production throughout
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Jul 28 2021
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Tie-dye bandana hype. I couldn't get on board with the music (or the tie-dye) at the time, and I still don't get it now. Three absolute monster hits and a lot of really dreary filler. Rehashing all the shit parts of the 1970s in a knowing hipster way for the 2000s generation, great.
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Jan 27 2022
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hipster supermarket music
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Oct 01 2021
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Pleasingly proggy, I wish I'd listened to it sooner.
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Feb 16 2021
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There were some songs on this album that brought back a lot of memories. MGMT sounded familiar but wow those songs were really popular. They're also the best songs on the album, however. Some of the songs are a bit boring but songs like Electric Feel mostly make up for it and maybe it's partially because I recognize them but Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, and Kids are great. That being said, the lyrics are pretty weak throughout the whole album and the production sounds a bit washed out even on my favorite songs. Plus the end of the album is really weak and I skipped several songs on the album on the second listen. The good songs are good but there aren't enough of them to justify a 4th star.
Favorite Songs: Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, Kids
Least Favorite Song: The Handshake
Decent 6/10
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Jul 28 2021
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dog shit.
psych music is probably my most listened to genre so its nothing to do with genre, its because its just fucking shite.
i feel dirty classifying it as psych, its like an instagram version of being wavy. like some teenager wearing a tie die t shirt and saying 'far out maaaan'.
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Jul 28 2021
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I like adverts they make me buy lots of things to impress my friends and work colleagues
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Sep 10 2021
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1. Time To Pretend: This sounds familiar. Oh I know this!!! I love the sound. I relate to this so much. It’s a little sad at the end. I get the existential nihilism but I hope they change their mind over the album. I love the… synths?… in the background.
2. Weekend Wars: Ugh I love this whole sound. “my predictions are the only things I have” is hell of a lyric. “There’s a reason I don’t win, I don’t know how to begin”
3. Youth: This makes me sad knowing they are probably mid millennials now. Every generation thinks it’s gonna change the world doesn’t it? Or maybe this is about growing up and taking your parents generations place as the adults in the world? This album feels very like “is growing up worth it?” This has a trance-y hypnotic feel because of all the repetition.
4. Electric Feel: I think this song is about the industrial revolution? Or the information (internet)/ technological revolution. They have a lot of repeating musical motifs throughout this album kind of like you notice in Broadway. Oh I love this flute part or whatever is. It sounds kind of Norwegian? Or something like that? Like I’d hear it in Frozen.
5. Kids: Everyone knows this song. I think Gossip Girl or something used it. Crazy how it was huge years after the album came out. I was obsessed with this once. Oh the famous “a family of trees wanted to be haunted” lyric that no one knows what it means but it’s provocative. Really gets the people going. Is this about growing up? Love the instrumental breakdown it’s gorgeous. Growing up and having to take responsibility? Unsure.
6. 4th Dimensional Transition: Pretty sure this is just about sex but it sounds really cool and the metaphors are interesting. I guess not committing though. The outro is so gorgeous.
7. Pieces of What: This sounds somewhat country but weirder. This has a lot of pathos. Not sure why. Idk I’m super into this it makes me feel nostalgic for something I’ve never known.
8. Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters: This is weird af but it sounds cool. What’s it about? Idk. I hear a lot of Lorde in this. I wonder if MGMT is one of her influences. Outro is so good.
9. The Handshake: This has to be the selling out song. MGMT’s hotel California. It’s such a cool song. All over the place like several songs stitched together but haunting and foreboding.
10. Future Reflections: I don’t know what this is about. Modernity maybe. But it’s gorgeous.
Oracular means: relating to an oracle/hard to interpret/enigmatic/ utterance that seems to come from special inspiration or authority/prophetic
Spectacular: beautiful in a dramatic or eye-catching way/ an event such as a pageant or musical, produced on a large scale and with striking effects/striking, sensational, notable for size or beauty
Oracular Spectacular is a perfect name for this album. (Future Nostalgia could never)
I love this. It’s like a perfect listening experience in the same way that melodrama is. And I feel like you probably pick up more and more on subsequent listens. This is going on my album rotation. Curious to see where the band went from here.
2nd listen:
1. Such a good opening track for a debut
2. I guess I just like trippy-ish music. This sounds Beatles-ish meets solar power Lorde but that might be boss baby syndrome. I just am into the vocals and the atmosphere.
3. This gets a little sinister cultish sounding towards the end? But I like it? It’s like yay! Growing up! Oh wait. Growing up. Or it’s starts out good intentioned but ends up really sinister.
4. I fucking love this song. Everyone says it’s about sex or ahuayasca but I still think it’s about technological innovation/Revolution and how it changed the world and how we felt about it at the start (before we knew the consequences) and the band straight up said it’s about electricity
5. If you don’t/didnt like this song at some point you have superpowers. But in context of the album (which seems very reluctantly coming to grasps with coming into adulthood both as an individual and a generation and a human race) it fits so well. I love love the bridge part.
Second half of the album is apparently controversial about if it holds up to the first half.
6. This is the sex/drugs song though clearly. It has no hook but it’s atmospheric af.
7. I just really like this. I’ve never heard anything else like it. It’s like a trippy fucking Jack Johnson song or something but make it country on lsd. Love the beat pick up at the end.
8. I just love the instrumentals of this. Can’t make out the lyrics at all really.
9. I never get tired of the songs about selling out for fame. They’re always so sinister and cool. The handshake under our tongue being a reference to hiding pills under your tongue instead of taking them is clever af though / the whistling at the end is so eerie.
10. Is that an organ? Or an organ sounding synth? The vocals on this are higher in the mix then anything else. The end reminds me of something more recent. It’s like a trippy oceanic feeling.
I really loved this album. I might change the tracklist order eventually but there are no skips.
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Sep 03 2023
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MGMT understands the enjoyment of being enveloped in a wave of sound like a shoegaze album whilst keeping the catchy hooks like your favorite pop song. This leads to an album that certainly has its fantastic hits and moments on it, and the whole album otherwise is still incredibly solid. My only worry, and the reason it stays from the five range, is I question how much this will stick with me past the singles. Some of the sounds of songs already allude me just after the album ends, and it does sort of give off the vibe of the music the alternative kid listens to just to stand out, albeit far better than most other groups that fall into that genre. I certainly don't dislike it, far from it, I just could use some more form in my pop and some more overwhelming noises in my wall of sound.
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Feb 04 2024
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This spectacular journey of bliss entranced me.
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Jan 11 2024
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I made a conscious effort to avoid this album and, to a lesser extent, this band for many years based off of the singles when they were released. Electric Feel, Kids and Time to Pretend didn’t really sit well with me then. I couldn’t get behind their sing-along, trust-fund hipster synth-funk. It was the kind of music that dudes who wore 80’s athletic shorts, had dumb mustaches and coke problems listened to; music for people who organized kickball leagues or duck-duck-goose tournaments in McCarren Park. Listening to those specific songs today, I still have that impression, I won’t lie.
However, I don’t think those songs are a very good representation of what this record actually is.
This is, and I mean this as a compliment of the highest order, a proper dirtbag psych rock record, along the lines of Ween or Royal Trux or maybe pre-Soft Bulletin Flaming Lips. I really fucking like it and I was wrong about this band. It’s weird, heady and psychedelic and doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with the superficiality of late aughts’ hipsterdom.
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Feb 03 2024
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With a title like Oracular Spectacular, this album does feel like a hipster time travel report from the future (perhaps even now) back to 2007 describing what life will be like in post modern 2.0 internet
A debut album, and what a debut album it was. If it were a vinyl, Side A 1-5 is the strength and Side B tracks 6-10 are the weakness. I feel bad for this group because as a debut album they have been doomed, even as they mature experientially and musically, to never reach its groovy heights ever again.
1) Time to Pretend - A confession of pretension is somewhat comforting? And on this track grooving. I also take this as a warning that the rest of the album that follows is lyrically tongue-in-cheek and not to be taken to literally or seriously.
2) Weekend Wars - The Bowie idolatry is on!
3) The Youth - Woefully naive, or sarcastically cynical, I cannot decide which. Love the dreamy production with walking bass and The Beatles-esque harmony.
4) Electric Feel - Love this sound and production. Lyrically, I am convinced this song is just simply about the transcendence of youthful lovemaking, or extolling the society altering affects the goddess Amazon.com.
5) Kids - Ahh, the celebrated callousness of youth. Take what you want from it, but try not to be trapped by nostalgia nor participation trophies.
6) 4th Dimensional Transition - Where the college dorm psychedelia experience meets the road of reality. Love the pulsing tabla groove. Kula Shaker would be proud of this arrangement.
7) Pieces of What - The first song that feels like your standard early 2000s indie blues oriented rock. Not a bad thing, just the first song that did not eschew traditional song arrangement.
8) Of Moons, Birds & Monsters - Jefferson Airplane for the early 2000s.
I love the finger food of music history approach in this song, and frankly on this album. A cynical person could say they are being ironic with their sound, but I personally think they truly love these pop forms as much as we do. The lyrics seem nonsensical, possibly chosen for the sounds of the words more than their actual meaning on this song.
9) The Handshake - Feels like a failed effort at Goth inspired songs. The angst is a bit eye-rolling, but then I remind myself that they warned us Time to Pretend not to take anything very seriously.
10) Future Reflections - Feels like a primer for understanding the image chosen for the album cover.
All in all, a solid effort but in the canon of music nothing that delineated a before and after. One of the more interesting things to listen to in 2007.
on a ten scale I would give it a 3.5, but since we are on a five scale, I'll give it a 4 on the strength of the first 5 songs.
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May 15 2024
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first track is one of my favorite mgmt tracks ever. something about the hard synths and then the raucous drums hits like nothing ever has
second track is wildly different, almost early beatles in soul
third track is like an anthem of a generation. somber and urgent and plaintive
I SAID OOH GIRL 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃 (track 4)
damn this shit comes all the way back from high school. downloading the music videos off youtube and putting them on my ipod (track 5)
not a lot to say about tracks 6 and 7
Overall phenomenal album incredible for history
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May 15 2024
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4 Songs in. If everything is as good as these first 3 tracks (I've heard Electric Feel before), this is gonna be an EASY 5 star.
Upon finishing the album, the back half kinda falls off. It's still alright, but I went from "every song is now in my likes" to "80%". Which means this is a perfect 4/5 in every shape of the name.
Gonna be real funny when I check the global average and discover that people hate this album or something.
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May 15 2024
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Love this album. Always a fun listen just not for everyday listening imo
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May 16 2024
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Great music. Loved it when it came out and still do.
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May 18 2024
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Nr. 177/1001
Time to Pretend 4/5
Weekend Wars 3/5
The Youths 3/5
Electric Feel 4/5
Kids 5/5
4th Dimensional Transition 3/5
Pieces of What 3/5
Of Moons, Birds & Monsters 4/5
The Handshake 3/5
Future Reflections 4/5
Average: 3,6
Fun mix of pop & electronica.
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Jun 12 2024
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Good start, amazing hits in the middle w "Electric Feel" and "Kids" back-to-back, and then a little boring toward the end but still a strong debut from the best band from Connecticut ever, which is saying something coming from someone who has put in more effort than most trying to create the best band from Connecticut ever.
Recipe to cure a lonely night:
1. Listen to "Kids" 3 times in a row.
2. Listen to "Broken" by Lovely The Band 3 times in a row.
3. Go back and listen to "Kids" again, noting how Lovely The Band so thoroughly borrowed "Kids" main keyboard riff as the backbone of their (excellent hit) song.
4. Play "Broken" one more time, but as loud as you can and scream along with the lyrics.
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Aug 27 2024
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It is clear that this paved the way for a new alt-pop sound, with artists like Tame Impala living the legacy MGMT never could. Only rating this a 4 because it has 3 great genre-defining songs (the rest are your typical experimental-style musical shrugs). This is, undeniably, a must-listen.
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Aug 27 2024
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There are several songs on this album, that shaped future albums, future genres, future music. Probably it's enough to give it 5 stars. I'm gonna go with 4.5/5.
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Jul 28 2021
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The rest of the album doesn't hold up to Time to Pretend, Kids and Electric Feel, but those three are fucking huge tunes...although were played to death a bit at the time. Let's shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars, I suppose.
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Oct 12 2021
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3.3 - It's 2009 and I'm sitting at my cubicle with my earbuds in. Pandora's spinning another MGMT track, just for me. I look around. I see my mug. Then my screen. I gaze up at the beige ceiling tiles...Everything's FINE. Everything WILL be fine. Everything feels PERFECTLY FINE... I am feeling perfectly fine...
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Oct 23 2023
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1. Time to Pretend - initially, seems like a song that talks about the boredom of the world and wants to get away and live lives of sex and drugs. as the song progresses, it talks of the true wanting: their childhood and life before their tedious life working at a 9 to 5 job. the outcome of their glam-filled lives, or boring lives too will be mediocre, and this was their 'time to pretend' after childhood; they were fated to pretend, couldn't escape it.
song in general sounds super cool!
4/5
2. Weekend Wars - i don't really get it. i think they're bored? and what they may do to pass the time? no idea
sounds pretty cool though! but a 2.5/5, not going in my playlist
3. The Youth - gorgeous gorgeous song. talks of the change in youth, the transition between growing up and staying kids. this is expressed more in the music, with an obvious shift in tone.
5/5, going in my playlist
4. Electric Feel - some girl whose charisma is very electric.
2/5
5. Kids - speaks of the give-and-take in the dynamic of a family. the importance of making decisions, and the stage of being an infant; a toddler.
sounds pretty cool.
3.5/5
6. 4th Dimensional Transition - i don't get it. i don't like it.
1/5
7. Pieces of What - i don't know either. sounds alright, very country-esque.
2/5
8. Of Moons, Birds & Monsters - exactly what the title says. interesting song. not going in my playlist though.
3/5
9. The Handshake - i think its about power politics, of signing a deal and not letting yourself get caught up in the power struggle between people. about being ignorant and in denial of being used, and not forgetting your roots.
sounds pretty cool.
3.5/5
10. Future Reflections - nooo idea what this is about, very philosophical and vague. i feel like if i got this i'd be/sound super cool or something.
sounds cool though! not going in my playlist
4/5
what's going in my playlist?
1. The Youth
my rating? - solid 3/5
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Feb 06 2024
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Was familiar with some of these tunes, but never remember MGMT as the band! Or didn't know. Lounge party music?
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Jun 25 2024
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It seems like MGMT wanted to be droning electro artists but then decided to turn their 45-minute instrumental versions of the Ghostbusters theme song into 3-minute pop songs so they could get famous. And they did so very effectively. The three hits are solidly hits. The filler is pretty bland but not offensively so.
This is very 2007 “indie” pop but there are worse things.
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Jul 04 2024
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So I enjoyed the MGMT “Oracular Spectacular” album, and appreciated the originality of their sound… Pretty good diversity from a musical perspective throughout, and overall the album was pretty well done…
“Kids” is by far the best track on the album, and its sound is incredibly original, and I’d give it 5-starts out of 7 in my little rating scale… Lyrics seem quite interesting as well, though don’t really have an idea as to exactly what it’s about though the line “…Control yourself, take only what you need from it…” really resonated with me from a variety of perspectives…
“Time To Pretend” & “Electric Feel” were also the popular, and I though they were pretty solid, but the track other than “Kids” that grabbed me – was “Of Moons, Birds, & Monsters”, as I just really enjoyed that one as well…
A solid 3 for me overall, and the “Kids” track really bumped it up…
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Aug 30 2024
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Not sure about this, maybe I'm a bit too old. Pleasant enough but a bit of a whiff of 'of the moment' hipster vibes? 'Kids' is awesome though.
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Jan 13 2022
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Elite level singles. Pure hype beyond that. Even worse than I remembered, no nostalgia bump at all here. The lyrics are shockingly poor. Aimed for left field indie-psych, ended up with advert music.
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Apr 21 2021
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2007: Time To Pretend, Kids, The Youth
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Oct 30 2020
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Great album
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Feb 21 2021
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Excellent
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Jan 27 2021
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One of the best albums of our time. I always come back to it.
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Jan 29 2021
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His best album
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Feb 11 2021
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great synth sounds
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Jan 17 2021
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One of my all-time favourites!
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May 19 2021
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This is my jam. Will always love MGMT
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Jan 14 2021
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Good
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Mar 09 2021
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Phenomenal light-pop synth album. I think they’re considered ground-breaking but it doesn’t matter I enjoyed it.
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Jan 26 2021
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classic MGMT. reminds me of nostalgic college days. energetic and bright.
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Feb 27 2021
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I'm not sure what my pandemic life has become, but randomly being given a great album I'm very familiar with - is a total bright spot in my day. The first two songs are a fucking knock-out. Both of these songs are a wonder on their own, and give you these little pockets of joy and exquisite noise. It's like how I describe marrying my wife, all of life became so much more and I was transformed into a new and better person. It's like that with MGMT, i can't imagine a world existing without discovering this band and this album. Like the music and melodies always existed and organically came to the surface to make me smile. I enjoy this very much, along with their follow up album. Nothing more to say, essential and five stars.
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Jun 24 2021
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epic😍😍😍😍
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Jan 15 2021
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One of my favorite bands. Congratulations is better, but this is a solid debut
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May 21 2021
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Was hard to pick a favorite!
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Jan 19 2021
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Fuckin solid obviously
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Jan 13 2021
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Brilliant
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Mar 10 2021
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AUTOMATICAMENTE 5 ESTRELAS
Mesmo que só gostasse das que já conhecia, só pela nostalgia, já daria 5 estrelas, mas não foi o caso
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Jan 30 2021
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Great 2000's album, reminds me a lot of my teenage years. So danceable, fun grooves now I remember why they were the big deal back in the day.
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May 26 2021
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12 years on and still quality
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Feb 22 2021
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No questions one of my fav adolescence album
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Jan 31 2021
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Unbelievable classic
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Feb 09 2021
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ME ENCANTAN
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Apr 15 2021
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Dank Moritz herausragender Urlaubs-Playlisten kenne ich ziemlich viele der Songs aber ich wusste nicht, dass die sich alle auf einem großartigen Album befinden. Hit!
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Apr 15 2021
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Ohne es erneut zu hören, weiß ich, dass ich das Album liebe.
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Apr 15 2021
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So viele coole Songs, die sowohl als Album, als auch Solo funktionieren. Die synthi-rock Kombi, der teilweise 80er Hall. Nice!
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Feb 28 2021
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Un disco bien hilado, muy bien hecho, como una mezcla de rock viejito y un sonido más dosmiles, y el hilo conductor es una especie de nostalgia muy relatable.
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Jun 01 2021
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Loved it
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May 04 2021
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YOOOOOOO I already know the first song and love it. This is gonna be a good album.
I know song #4 too?! Love it.
#5 is the same album, too?! Bet.
Love this music, automatic 5 for me. Don't even have to finish the album to know that.
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Jul 30 2021
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5
Byl nieznany pick, to musiala lista zbalansowac czyms co kojarzy chyba kazdy, bo oracular spectacular, to pierwszy album wydany przez powazna wytwornie, w tym wypadku columbia records, zawiera jedne z najbardziej popowych i chwytliwych trakow jakie slyszalem, wiec nie jest dziwne, ze gdy puscilem ten album w samochodzie, to nawet osoby amuzyczne od razu kojarzyly kawalek po pierwszych nutkach, reklama dupla sprzed 10 lat zrobila robote, no i samplowatosc tego materialu, bo sporo murzynow pozyczalo ich beaty, jak nipsey i call from the bank, sporo tez colabowali, moim ulubionym colabem w tym wypadku bedzie spotkanie z kid cudim i ratatatem na pursuit of happiness z czlowieka na ksiezycu 2k09, ale nie jest to w zadnym razie poczatek muzyzkowania dla duetu andrewa vanwyngardena i bena goldwassera, bo chlopaki ktore spotkaly sie na uniwerku i juz graja od 2k02, wiec troche im zajelo sprzedanie sie, przed oracularem spectacularem wydali jeden epek, z ktorego pochodza dwa najwieksze hity oraculara, kids i time to pretend, ktory jest takze tytulem epka i tak samo jak na tej plycie otwiera material, ale jak otwiera, przejscie z time to pretend do oraculara, to zpopowanie swojego brzmienia z nastawieniem na jak najwiekszy sukces komercyjny, cel jak widac zostal osiagniety i plyta jest na liscie, ten album pokazuje, ze nawet psychodeliczne liryki da sie sprzedac, jesli odpowiednio popracuje sie nad brzmieniem, bo to wlasnie ten aspekt najbardziej odroznia pierwszy epek i plyte, jeszcze mocniej synthami, wokale zmodulowane efektami do granic mozliwosci tak aby blendowaly sie z melodia, nie zostalo to za duzo z surowosci wokalowych epki, a to wszystko zeby sie sprzedac, gdybym nie znal calej dyskografii MGMT, to zalozylbym, ze nastepne numery pojada przetartym szlakiem i beda nastawione na jak najwieksze slupki, a sprawa wyglada calkiem inaczej, bo zarowno congratulations jak i eponimowy album sa powrotem do bardziej rokowego brzmienia z mniejszym wykorzystaniem synthow i opartymi na czystych dzwiekach instrumentalnych, bo zapomnialbym wspomniec, ze obaj czlonkowie duetu, to multi instrumentalisci, wiec jesli chodzi o wykorzystane dzwieki calosc byla tworzona przez duet, az dziwne ze album z jednymi z najbardziej popowych trakow w historii jest jednoczesnie jednym z moim ulubionych, stoi za tym kompozycja plyty, pierwsza czesc krazka jest wypakowana do granic mozliwosci hitowymi trakami, to jest 5 kawalkow, od szostego, nazwanego 4th dimensial transition album calkowicie zmienia swoje obliczne i pokazuje, ze MGMT to jednak indyjski rock, a nie sam pop, to tak jakby wydac dwa epki na jednej plycie i ta strona ktora ma sprzedac plyte jest stworzona z zrecyklingowanego materialu juz wczesniej wykorzystanego na time to pretend, natomiast od drugiej strony bije orginalnosc brzmienia, bardziej konserwatywne podejscie do chanelow, jak pieces of what, ktory daje mocno monowe viby, zwlaszcza w koncowce, gdzie na prawym kanale dostajemy wokal, natomiast basy i drumy na lewym, cos niezbyt popowego, ale kto dojdzie do tego momentu, jak na spotifaju, pierwsza strona oscyluje pomiedzy 300-500 milionow odtworzen, a druga strona pomiedzy 9-15 miliona, dopiero takie porownanie dobrze ukazuje to o czym pisalem, dlatego wlasnie jest to jeden z moich ulubionych albumow, ktore ciezko przypisac do konkretnego gatunku, bo tworcy pokazuja, ze potrafia grac cokolwiek w zaleznosci od tego czy chca sprzedac material lub tez grac co im lezy, na plejce juz mam cala pierwsza strone, wiec teraz wypadaloby dodac takze cos z drugiej, a wybor padl na piecies of what i zamykajacy material reflections, a cala plyta leci do spoti biblioteczki gdzie jej miejsce
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Jul 30 2021
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5
Beautiful, complex, and apparently a band I've heard a lot of before despite not recognizing the name.
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Aug 05 2021
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5
Super fun album, perfect for many many movie soundtracks and why wouldn’t it be. It somehow sounds nostalgic for not a specific time in history but for a time in everyone’s lives which I just think is neat
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Aug 09 2021
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5
excelent!
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Aug 17 2021
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5
There is no question that Time to Pretend, Electric Feel and Kids are incredibly well written and perfectly executed pop masterpieces that embody the neon soaked electro stylings of the pre '10s Myspace era, but I couldn't help feeling a twinge of cringe when I heard Kids as a direct result of hearing it over and over and over for the past 15 years. When consideration is given to the entire album you realise that MGMT are a highly complex organism that are able to shift from bright accessible electronica into the realm of deep, dark psychedelia with very little warning. Everything from Fourth Dimensional Transition onwards (literal nod to the album's change of pace?) makes it seem as if as if Side 1 and Side 2 were written for completely different audiences. The Handshake is easily my highlight, would love to listen to it in a float tank. This album is clear proof that a band can be far more than their often flogged singles. Maybe the cringe was a result of my own ventures into hair straighteners and side fringes. In any case that time, space and place will live on forever in this album.
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Aug 18 2021
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5
The nostalgia is strong with this one
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Sep 10 2021
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5
Like a crap calculator user, this album presses a lot of buttons with unexpected results. Some masterpieces on here. Tossing up between 4 & 5, can’t punish it due to a lack of 4.5 option. 5 it is!
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Sep 27 2021
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5
Own it, love it.
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Oct 04 2021
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5
Love this album so much I didn't even bother listening again.
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Oct 05 2021
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5
A ver, si es que tiene todos los temazos... (Voviendo a escribir en esta weá)
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Oct 21 2021
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5
Love this album. Such a nostalgic listen, easy to see how influential this was on indie/alt music
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Nov 10 2021
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5
One of my favorite albums of all time, every track is a hit. Still holds up. First time listening in probably 10 years.
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Nov 17 2021
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5
Great record
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Nov 24 2021
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5
This is a fantastic album. When I saw it I wondered whether my love of it was just nostalgia for the time but it is genuinely a great album. I remember when it came out it felt so cool and different to a lot of other stuff and the whole aesthetic of it felt so fresh.
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Nov 26 2021
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5
Nostalgic stuff right here
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Nov 30 2021
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5
I am super impressed. I remember the hits from high school, but the album as a whole is great work in this genre. Great melodies, catchy synth parts, varying rhythms. Great work! An example for Indie!
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Dec 01 2021
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5
Com si d’un disc de vinil es tractés (l’obra es va publicar abans de l’arribada de la segona época dorada del vinil), el cd es composa de dos parts molt diferenciades. Les primeres cinc cançons són composicions pop perfectes, banda sonora ideal de la segona meitat dels 00’s, fresca i original, que ens transporta a tots els que la vam viure als millors moments d’aquells anys. La segona part és més densa, fosca i complexa, pista de per on anirien les coses en els següents dos discos del duet, abans que recuperessin la inspiració pop a ‘Little Dark Age’. No desmereix, però, i tot i estar lluny de l’efectisme meritori de la primera meitat, és la que aporta gran part de la vigència a llarg termini del disc
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Dec 03 2021
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5
A familiar start that took me back to being a teenager, still a fantastic album after all these years.
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Dec 13 2021
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5
Awesome album. They have such a cool sound, unique music!
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Dec 20 2021
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5
Great album! Love me some MGMT!
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Dec 23 2021
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5
Groovy
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Dec 25 2021
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5
Awesome album! Much more depth than I was expecting.
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Jan 03 2022
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5
Yes and also yes
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Jan 21 2022
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5
Never listened to this whole thing, find it very engaging
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Jan 27 2022
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5
College nostalgia dictates that I give this 5 stars. But really there are some great songs on here. Electric Feel has been in my brain for 15 years
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Feb 07 2022
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5
Weird. Messy. And most importantly, mind-blowing. These experiences are why I signed up for this project. This is a unique, unusual, and beautiful discovery for me.
It's not easy to describe its sound, but I think the cover art tells a lot about it. Two seemingly hipster men on a beach, which is painted in a vibrant scheme of blue and purple. That perfectly sums up the album. It's hipster-ish, as some less enthusiastic people put it, yet it's oddly moving. It was like walking along a surreal beach built by those synth (?) riffs. It was like musical psychedelic trip, with a nice uplifting build-up.
What happened to this type of music when artists like LANY and The Chainsmokers brought it to the mainstream in early 2010's? Whatever, I'm still glad that I discovered this gem. It might not be one of the best pop albums of the recent times, but it sure is the most mood elevating album that I have ever heard so far.
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Feb 08 2022
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5
Of Moons, Birds & Monsters and Time to Pretend are the best songs of all time. The production is intricate and I'm so proud of the accomplishments being that this album was made 2006-2008.
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Feb 08 2022
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5
This album has some of my favourite singles of all time and the album tracks are way better than they're usually given credit for.
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Feb 11 2022
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5
already have it!
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Feb 14 2022
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5
I love this so much!
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Mar 15 2022
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5
Time to Pretend, Electric Feel i Kids przesuper, generalnie bardzo spoko album, chyba jedyny utwor ktory srednio mi sie podobal to of moons, birds & monsters.
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Apr 05 2022
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5
Mama mia
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Apr 05 2022
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5
This album is perfect. Absolutely one of the best albums of the 00s.
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Apr 14 2022
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5
Still a great album. Time to Pretend and Electric Feel are my favourite tracks.
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Apr 18 2022
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5
On paper, I shouldn't like MGMT. It's electronic indie-pop. But MGMT manage to avoid all of the pitfalls of their peers by creating compelling rhythms and melodies accompanied by fun and surprisingly coherent lyrics.
This whole album was just a jam. Each successive track built a mood that I found compelling. By the end, I was involuntarily tapping my feet and bobbing my head. It's a great album.
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