It was only about two years ago that "Kids" and "Time To Pretend" were blasting out of dorm rooms, dance floors and teenager's cars. Now from a listen of New Yorker pschedelic rock band MGMT sophomore LP Congratulations it's like they aren't even the same band anymore. Instead of the big stadium snythpop hits ("Time To Pretend" and "Kids) of their major label debut Oracular Spectacular MGMT plays more neo-psychedelia songs like the second half of Oracular Spectacular.
Besides MGMT becoming more of an "experimental" band, they're still pounding out the singles. First "Flash Delirium", a crazy psychedelic trip of numerous changing styles that can seem a bit out of place at times. "Siberian Breaks" is a very strange single and probably MGMT's most ambitious work. It's over 12 minutes long, but feels like it is broken up into five different songs. It starts out with a very chill acoustic guitar intro but builds into a pompous baroque-like waltz then a synth loaded space odyssey and goes back to the baroque waltz and then just goes all over the place.
The other very notable track is "Congratulations" that is just a simple cool down song with a very addictive bass line with lots of cool inputs of Asian-like instrumentation. But, the LP isn't all excellent, there are a lot of tracks that lack and just sound all the same. "I Found a Whistle" and "Lady Dada's Nightmare" are just tracks to show that MGMT is trying to be weird, which I can respect in all honesty, but in this case, it's irritatingly weird.
If you're looking for some good pump-up hits like "Kids" and "Time To Pretend", please save yourself some time and patience and do not purchase this album. It's not at all like the first half of Oracular Spectacular, if you want a perspective of what Congratulations sounds like; listen to the second half of Oracular.
It's all mostly a fun listen through, while some tracks lack and just give a aura of just trying to be trippy as crazy, which can be okay, but in this cause it isn't all that special.
Overall: 7.3/10
Track Listing:
1. It's Working - 8.0 *
2. Song For Dan Treacy - 8.5 *
3. Someone's Missing - 7.0
4. Flash Delirium - 7.5
5. I Found a Whistle - 5.0
6. Siberian Breaks - 9.0 *
7. Brian Eno - 7.0
8. Lady Dada's Nightmare - 6.5
9. Congratulations - 8.5 *
* - Notable Track
Sample:
"Flash Delirium"
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