Product Description

'Oracular Spectacular' is the debut full-length studio album from New York's MGMT. Taking influence from Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and the Beach Boys amongst others, this is an infectious and uplifting, modern psychedelic indie rock recordfilled with stomping anthems and irresistible harmonies. Includes the single 'Time To Pretend'.

Track Listing

1. Time To Pretend
2. Weekend Wars
3. Youth
4. Electric Feel
5. Kids
6. 4th Dimensional Transition
7. Pieces Of What
8. Of Moons Birds And Monsters
9. Handshake
10. Future Reflections
11. Electric Feel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactly right. 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

Customer Reviews

Amazing
it is so refreshing to finally have an album that simply is what it is. This is not trying to copy (thank god) all of this indy and emo crap that has contaminated the music industry for to long. This is a brilliant album with lots of twists and turns which allow you to listen to the songs over and over without getting bored. I am a lover of music and it feels so good to finally have a recently released album that is amazing. It kind of sounds like bowie meets daft punk for some songs and others i simply cant describe. Buy this album!!! anyone who gave it under 4 stars is simply insane. Also two other album i was very impressed by are The Last Shadow Puppets - Age Of The Understatement and Mystery Jets - Twenty One. Theyre all fab and well worth investigating.

Sam Mason.

bowie + electro-funk + psychedelia + synth hooks to die for = oracular spectacular
I'm actually surprised by the 2 bad reviews this album has received because I've listened to the 'Time To Pretend' ep and Oracular Spectacular and have fallen in love with both. I originally avoided listening to MGMT because I believed they were most probably undeservingly over-hyped and a bit 'cooler-than-thou' for my liking. However, I'm sorry I procrastinated because now I literally can't get enough of their beautiful, psychedelic, Bowie-esque, electric gorgeousness. Oracular Spectacular is one of the best albums I've heard in ages and I'd urge anyone to give it a try.

THIS YEARS BEST ALBUM
A great band is born, this album is full to the brim with good tracks the best being "Of moons birds and monsters" " The youth" and "pieces of what". It is an eclectic mix of many different genres which are all used to optimum effect and acheive a fantastic psychedellic genius result.