Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

anytime a band makes a record with harmonies and reverb, people start talking about the sixties. or elephant six. it's lazy.

ha!

what a disaster for MGMT

i'm sure the jurnalistz have it harder.

"this album sounds exactly the same as the last one minus the three good songs"

― call all destroyer, Monday, March 22, 2010 3:54 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

^OTM

I can't help but imagine that all of this "we aren't writing poppy songs anymore" business is just to impress a handful of arty girls in Brooklyn.

hey looks like another thread where i'm going to have to suggest ban people who mention "brooklyn" "hipsters"!

it's interesting to see how makeitpop trolls in threads that he didn't start for the express purpose of trolling

I really don't see how that's trolling. Is that opinion so outlandish that it seems like I'm baiting you? C'mon.

these dude were probably out for like a year smashing lapsed weezer fan poon by the truckload and you think they are making a whole album to impress five chicks in brooklyn?

smashing post

+2

Well, why else would a band decide to do something so retarded. I'm guessing arty chicks in BK because I think this band is way too calculated and self-conscious to make this album for purely artistic reasons.

you are guessing arty chicks in BK because you have nothing meaningful to say

tbh if these guys actually have made an album that in any way ends up being commercial or critical self-sabotage, more power to them. it seems like every alt/indie band that gets to about their stature these days gets rubber stamped "they did it again! 7.9!" reviews all around, it'd be refreshing for someone to actually shit the bed and/or piss everyone off for once.

The song where you go on about how ace Dan Treacy is in the style of one of his recent appalling songs is surely post modernism reaching its lowest ebb.

^^^probably the most depressing three minutes of my life this year

"Someone's Missing" is easily my favorite song of the disc so far. It's over far too quickly, they should have just looped the whole thing once more. The rest is fun but less tuneful than the debut. I still don't understand how these guys got such tremendous hype power so fast.

because "Time to Pretend" was a monster tune

so is what u all are saying is 'mgmt is over'? pheww was a crazy ride but im frankly kinda relieved

is it 'time to stop pretending'

yeah i think these dudes got tired of the ex-raver poon and are trying to get some of that 16-year old pittsburgh art school "i tried to get into sonic youth but i dunnnooo" action.

"Time to Pretend" was great, but I liked "Kids" far less. "Weekend Wars" and esp "The Youth" were my fave tracks on the debut. It's a good second album, if you listened to the whole first one and not just the singles, you'll probably like it. I think they have a really amazing colossal record in them and this is "Congratulation" is definitely not it.

yeah see i like this new album because it sounds like a more realized "weekend wars".

btw seriously dudes don't waste your time handwringing about MGMT for fuck sakes. this is the only life you will ever have.

this band has only ever been good for clowning on.

Joanna Newsom was in the "Kids" video, and the two singles I heard, including "Kids," were alright. that's about it.

yeah it's like that song was cool...it's just some song that will make it on TV late night CD "best of the 00s" type shit...like "sex and candy" or
"steal my sunshine" and shit...

just let it go, this band will never amount to shit, they had one good quasi hit

yeah we should talk about good music. i'm sure that will make us feel better.

xp except the 90s were flush with music like that ("rock" bands with an alternative or indie sensibility of some kind that could produce mainstream singles that lots of people enjoyed) and the 00s were....not. that to me is the frustrating thing about mgmt--they had three legitimately good singles and rather than pursuing that sound they're pretty much making bullshit afaict.

huh, i just heard the single for the first time, and i don't understand this thread at all now.

also, the little flute solo is funny.

Kids is totally like 2kx "Sex and Candy". But if you haven't heard some of the other tracks you should listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURZuzHyWb0

vid by Eric of Tim & Eric

seems like most people's opinions are colored by some idea about mgmt that doesn't have much to do with the actual music. the amount of hate they inspire is a sign that they're doing something interesting, imho. the first track on this new one i'm particularly digging... great melodies, harmonies, sonic textures, etc. what's to hate?

i also think it's weird these guys are seen as rock stars. they just seem like awkward stoners to me, which is endearing.

also, i love the cover art.

the amount of hate they inspire is a sign that they're doing something interesting, imho.

rock solid logic

exactly. what's to hate? it just sounds like a musical album. made by a band. they made another album before this one that sounded like whatever, and now this one sounds like this. are people accusing this band of being reverse-sellouts or what is the problem?

a band had like two hits and then changed their sound a bit on the next album. is this offensive? unheard of?
maybe you people should listen to the black crowes instead of this indie rock stuff. you're obviously getting confused.

people are accusing them of not being very good

then i take it back, you probably won't like the black crowes either...

love where this thread is going

"twice as hard" > "kids"

it just sounds like a musical album.

ohhhh, i hadn't realized this is a musical album--this changes everything!

Conshitulation by MGMT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLRk3_nogo

they made another album before this one that sounded like whatever, and now this one sounds like this.

7/10

-- johnny0

can we turn this into a rockism thing? i've got a looong day left at work.

I don't think they've sold out or really changed their sound all that much. Both those arguments are pretty silly for any band imo.

I think it's a case of the songs were just more memorable on the first record and because they are so hyped everyone is reading all this extra stuff into that. I just think it boils down to better songs the first time.

honestly surprised that the Ausgang artwork might be the best thing about this album. I was hoping for at least one more "Kids" out of the deal. what the hell Soulwax supposed to remix off of this dud?

strangely, parts of this album remind me of Cornelius.

^^^stop tempting me to hear it!

actually when this fuckmare of a class assignment is done i will listen to it, and return with judgements

i dunno, i hear lots of things in it at times. Cornelius, the Chrysanthemums, Homosexuals, late-period Turtles, early Supergrass. Flaming Lips, of course. it's interesting, at least.

Wish Cornelius was releasing a new album!