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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:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 213
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
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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| Editorial Reviews:
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.
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 85 more reviews...
 Only two good songs December 3, 2008
Jacob Devries
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listen to a lot of different genres of music. I recently heard MGMT's "time to pretend," and was very compelled to buy the CD. I normally don't buy CD's, but I found myself in a store that sells them (and I had consumed some lunch beers). I decided to roll with my inclination.
I popped the disk in almost immediately, on my way home, and reconfirmed that I like "Time to Pretend." I was also really grooving on "Electric Feel," but to my disappointment these are the only two songs that are unique and very enjoyable. The rest of the album sounds totally different. I don't really see what they are going for here. Some of it seems almost like a mockery of some very influential classic rock bands. I would have to recommend against buying the whole album. I would also have to recommend that this band do more drugs.... A LOT MORE DRUGS.
A groovy electro adventure that does for the 70s what electroclash did for the eighties November 21, 2008
Bart Motes (Miami, Florida)
Although I never received this from amazon, I listened to it in other mediums. MGMT has a laid back groove somewhere at the intersection of Scissor Sisters and Phoenix with a dash of Thievery Corporation. Not a bad place to operate and with nary a jarring note.
 Truly spectacular!! November 17, 2008
Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MGMT are a New York duo whose Pop/Dance/Rock/Electronic sound makes for a heady mix. Their very playful disc "Oracular spectacular" comprises just 10 tracks (these days, loads of CDs average 11 tracks, doing away with filler).
"Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives" they sing in the buzzing "Time to pretend" as they spell out the hedonistic lifestyle they have mapped out.
The acoustic "Weekend wars" reminds me a wee bit of The Beatles. "Of monsters, birds & monsters" is more upbeat. An extremely catchy retro sounding Pop/Rocker. The echo-ey "The youth" is so retro sounding, almost a Doo-wop ballad with shimmery psychedelic effects. "Electric feel" is disco-tinged and finds the duo singing in falsetto. Extremely catchy and one of my favourites.
"Kids" (aptly filled with sounds of kids at play) is a stomping slice of Dance/Rock, while the droning "4th dimensional traditional" features some tribal sounding percussion. "Pieces of what" is a lovely acoustic ballad (with percussion and epic strings coming in before the end). "The handshake" is a lovely ballad with echo-ey/disembodied vocals, while closing is the woozy psychedelic-sounding "Future reflections".
A spectacular debut!
Oh wow, awesome stuff guys! November 12, 2008
Mr. Kevin P. D'arcy
Just shy of turning 40 I`ve become a little bit of a fossil regarding whats hip and new but Im so glad I didnt let this little gem get away. Really fantastic.
Best MGMT Record Yet November 6, 2008
D. Abustan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not to sounds pretentious or like a music snob, but I use to listen to these guys since they were referred to as "The Management". All I can say is that they've definitely grown over the years and that this is their best record yet. If you like the single "Time to Pretend", you'll love the rest of the album. This is one of those records you'll listen to again in 10 years and it wont feel like it has aged.
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