Insound Staff Pick - 2008! 40 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, the duo's much-anticipated first full-length album, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium.

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Can MGMT play real instruments? Do they write and produce their own music? Are they joking? These are all questions you may be asking yourself after witnessing an MGMT show. However, although these questions may have easily accessible solutions, we like to pretend that we don't know the answers. You figure it out for yourself. Only old man future knows the answers. Go ask him. Will you join us in our quest for whatever it is we are questing for? Will you join the MGMT malevolution? Equal parts creativity an   [ read more ]

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They say that good things come to those that wait, and for fans of Brooklyn-based electro psych outfit MGMT, this is certainly true. After years of word-of-mouth buzz generated by CD-Rs handed out by the band at live shows, fans were finally treated to an official release, the Time to Pretend EP in 2005. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser met as freshman at Wesleyan University and quickly bonded over their shared love of eccentric pop music: Arthur Russell, Prince and Suicide were among heir infl   [ read more ]

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When MGMT was asked by their record label for a list of their dream producers, with low expectations they sarcastically replied: Prince, Nigel Godrich, Barack Obama, and "not Sheryl Crow." Columbia returned with Dave Fridmann, the producer extraordinaire best known for his work with Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. In typical Fridmann fashion, Oracular Spectacular is a glamorous mega-production through and through. Drums are massively distorted and shimmering keyboards are arti   [ read more ]

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