MGMT Reviews

An album could be a clue, but two (consecutive to boot) become a test: of the MGMT Oracular Spectacular (debut in 2007) no longer exist. They evolved, and you are left behind everything that has to do with melodies that will stick mercilessly in the brain (there are those who still whistling Kids, one of those songs that never go out of fashion).

New Yorkers have decided to sit on their way to a happy and colorful island full of flowers, far away from the laws of pop radio. Too bad, someone will say, there is always room for an Electric Feel or Time To Pretend to break the discounted ladders pop radio. Okay, tell others, if Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser are willing to give their side less catchy are welcome. On the other hand, have proven to be up to the challenge with Congratulations, an album in which the word "single" is like two cups trump sticks. When this year on the occasion of Record Store Day have released the "single" Alien Days in cassette format (!) We knew we definitely played esserceli. Might not come back (where the "back" refers to the first stirrings of the band), but will continue to explore more obscure and experimental territories.

Here is the cover of Introspection (song recorded in the year of grace 1968 by unrecognized Faine Jade) fits like a glove. The psychedelia is everywhere: in the mysterious suspension of I Love You Too, Death (a sort of lullaby for adults with a crescendo enveloping), the menacing insistence Your Life Is A Lie, in triplets Plenty Of Girls In The Sea (practically the Beach Boys stoned) and the visionary An Orphan Of Fortune. And at the end of the disc becomes a valid alternative lysergic acid.