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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886971951226
Format: Enhanced
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 128
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- 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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Album Description:
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
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 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
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating: - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Oracular Spectacular (2008, Red Ink) MGMT's first studio album. ****
The neo-psychedelia duo MGMT (made up of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden) could have released a classic album. They could have. In fact, for a while, it seemed like they had done it; the first half of Oracular Spectacular, their debut album, it seems like MGMT have crafted something perfect.
The reality is, the Oracular Spectacular is lopsided, with all the beautiful gems showing themselves in the ... Read More
Rating:  - Shallow
First of all, MGMT?Is that "Management?" "Meenage Gutant Minja Turtles?" "Mey Gight Me Tiants?"Beats the hell out of me, and their website ("whoismgmt") is no help, either.
The album title, well, seems to be communicating some sort of remarkable event involving an oracle, or one that is, by inference mystical and difficult to interpret.Me, I think they just thought it sounded clever, and it rhymed, too.The depth of this title was not reflected in the music.
And what ... Read More
Rating:  - funky flaming lips -- shame about the singing though
These tracks sound more than just a little like The Flaming Lips and that is not a bad thing at all. There's a creative energy from beginning to end and the band clearly has a sense of humor. So....I like this CD but personally I have a short tolerance for male falsetto singing (its too often a way to hide that the singer cannot actually carry a tune).Since every track has this high-pitched one-tone singing, the CD gets a few giant demerits. Please guys, try to actually sing on your next CD or just ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Album.
Just had my first listen and I think this is a great album.
MGMT has a great sound.NewWaveGlamRock is back MGMT!
Rating: - The Band That May Save Rock and Roll?
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 ... Read More
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