MGMT: "Congratulations"

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Mar 3, 2010 8:38:37 GMT -5 AFRO SAMURAI said:

Not impressed on first listen. But I'll reserve judgment until I hear the studio version.

Ditto.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

MGMT
CONGRATULATIONS 4/13

LOWDOWN: Fans expecting another album of supercatchy, wry psych-pop gems from MGMT will probably be disappointed. And that's the idea. "Some will hate it, and some will love it," says singer-keyboardist Andrew Vanwyngarden. "We want to freak people out." After touring for two years behind their debut, 2007's Oracular Spectacular, Vanwyngarden and his partner in the band, Ben Goldwasser, recorded most of the LP in Malibu with producer Pete Kember — of U.K. shoegazers Spacemen 3. The album ranges from quirky, British Invasion-like tunes ("It's Working") to sprawling, experimental cuts like the 12-minute Beach Boys-influenced "Siberian Breaks." "One of our goals has been to infiltrate mainstream culture — and still shock people," says Vanwyngarden. "I think this will do that."

A 12 minute experimental cut? Yawn.

[backintime]

"Congratulations" leaked. Its hot! Very 60s.

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"I Found A Whistle" is the only song on the record with some kind of refrain.

I really like the Beatles-esque moments (like on "It's Working"), but they come and go too quickly.

They're either on too many drugs, or are trying to be dropped by Columbia.

[That Skipping Rope.]

Dope record.

[backintime]

Love it! Imagine their debut album without "Time To Pretend", "Electric Feel" and "Kids", but with the rest being a lot better and that's pretty much this record. "Flash Delirium" is definitely the worst song.

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Mar 20, 2010 9:12:32 GMT -5 backintime said:

Love it! Imagine their debut album without "Time To Pretend", "Electric Feel" and "Kids", but with the rest being a lot better and that's pretty much this record. "Flash Delirium" is definitely the worst song.

I have to disagree a little bit. While it is like an album of "Future Reflections," it's lacking the choruses that those songs had. That's not my beef, though - my beef is that the production is really flat, even in FLAC.

These tracks could've really popped out more if the mixing was better - not even necessarily more polished, but if it was mixed less loudly, all the little flourishes and instruments would be more audible.

[That Skipping Rope.]

I love how non "Time To Pretend" this record is.

I wanna get blazed and listen to it. I feel like they want me to, as well.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

There's all this stuff pointing to the Illuminati controlling the direction of this album.

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Huh? It's totally anti-illuminati.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Mar 21, 2010 2:09:25 GMT -5 @drexbeutel said:

Huh? It's totally anti-illuminati.

I don't get it/believe it myself, but Vigiliant Citizen message boards has a bunch of people saying that at 6:25 in the "Kids" video there is symbolism pointing to the Illuminati's order, and that onwards from the video portrays a theme of mind control... meaning that was their way of saying from that point on, all of their music will comply with the Illuminati. Yeah, this sounds far fetched to me too, but it's interesting.

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If the "Illuminati" had control of this album, it'd be full of "Kids," though. The music business is definitely filled with mind control when promoting their artists and choosing their singles/producers, but I think anything else is kind of far-fetched.

[One More Time]

I doubt it this album reeks anti-illuminati.

[One More Time]

the video for "Flash Delirium" is out it's on their website, along with links to stream the album and i think they leaked the album themselves they even wanted to offer it as a free download for a period of time but i guess Columbia wouldn't let them do it

[duh5]

This album is such a void. It's pretty much background music. And whoever mentioned the horrific mixing is right on point. I wonder if this is self-sabotage on their behalf.

I can't stand artists who whine about being successful, shut the f**k up.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Mar 31, 2010 8:21:16 GMT -5 duh5 said:

I wonder if this is self-sabotage on their behalf.

I was thinking the same thing.

[AFRO SAMURAI]

Mar 31, 2010 8:21:16 GMT -5 duh5 said:

This album is such a void. It's pretty much background music.

Yeah, I feel the same way. The songs are fairly well-written and melodic. But because of the bad mixing, it's the kind of album that's so bland you forget it's even playing after about ten minutes.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

MGMT's new album, Congratulations, had a strong showing this week as it debuted at #2 on the sales chart with more than 66,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This marks the best sales week ever for the duo. However, it was not enough to dethrone Justin Bieber's My World 2.0, which is at #1 once again with another 92,000 copies sold.

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That's 66k people who will be dissapointed.

[Dance In The Dark]

Apr 23, 2010 9:30:14 GMT -5 @drexbeutel said:

That's 66k people who will be dissapointed.