Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

Have One On MGMT

Considering how much of a disaster that first "single" was, I'm surprised at how not terrible this record is. Doesn't even come close to something I'd recommend to anybody beyond "Check it out, I guess" -- but it's mostly harmless (occasionally interesting) psych (with a few half-decent Sparks impersonations thrown in for good measure). I previously thought this band had no staying power, but I'm willing to recalculate that if they can refine what's on Congratulations for the future.

That said: commercially, this record will drop like a fucking stone. Can't imagine them staying on Columbia after this one, although I can't see them on any of the major indies either (Domino, MAYBE). So, time will tell.

That stream is the same thing I was listening to last night. I still think it's terrible. I wonder how bad the fake leak must be if you actually like this, Moka.

― Johnny Fever.

No Johnny, I never actually said I liked it, I still think it's awful. But yeah, the leak I had was just a bunch of annoying pitched voices and atuned synth pads... come to think of it, I don't know why I thought it was the real deal as it sounded nothing like the vocalist from MGMT.

two songs in and it is my opinion that you guys are wrong about this not being commercially viable--sounds very accessible, reaching out of lo-fi dance glow into unobtrusive psych pop will get these into way more people's hands and the impending 4.0 pitchfork review won't do enough to stop it.

I remember nearly all the songs on the first album having a chorus.

This is a terrific album. There is so much imagination and joy in it! And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BNM. Sorry haters. Good music is good music.

congratulation!!!!!

haha

Sorry haters. Good music is good music.

meme half-life approx 17 days

yes but someone has to make it their display name first (hint hint)

Good music for me to poop on.

First song kinda almost makes me think of old Of Montreal.

I really like the coda to "Someone's Missing". Vocals are mixed too low in this record IMO.

this album is incredible. do you people hate fun or something?

yes

this album is incredulous.

this album is incredible. do you people hate fun or something?

― johnnyo

It's not fun when the joke's on us.

sure it is!
i'm not even really sold on these guys, but thank god someone is doing something that's ambitious AND humorous.
this album is even funnier than the cover.

you have a terrible sense of humor

Kinda skipping around on the stream, "Brian Eno" is pretty funny but I could really go for some more huge hooks.

good music is BORING

i'm not even really sold on these guys her, but thank god someone is doing something that's ambitious AND humorous.

Could just as easily have appeared in a Joanna Newsom thread.

mgmt have never been funny -- they're cynical at best but aren't clever in expressing their cynicism at all

yeah but that's why they're funny. who are they supposed to be - warren zevon?

i don't think joanna newsom is doing anything humorous. pure pretention.

it's not bold to be a pop band that releases an album that has no singles but has a bunch of songs like "flash delirium" that flail around in the name of "unexpected stylistic curveballs" -- it's just self-defeating and self-hating

haha, hold on -- mgmt aren't pretentious? aaalright

good fucking god i hate the 60s

i don't think it's self-defeating. obviously a lot of work went into these songs, they're pretty elaborate. it's self-defeating to just declare something a "fuck you" because you don't get it all right away. i'm not saying their geniuses, but this album is hardly intentional career suicide. just use your imagination or something.

thin-sounding, derivative, twee, joyless, sexless, rhythmless, hookless "retro pastiche" that really "highlights their influences"

for fucks sake at least e6 bands were sincere when they played shit like this

this doesn't sound anything like elephant 6 bands. lazy comparison.
this album sounds exactly like the last one minus the three electro-pop singles. hardly mind-blowingly different.

i think it's pretty hard to read it as them intentionally trying to pull back from the sort of fans that they've amassed -- they said that they don't want people to download their songs, they want people to download the album and listen to it in full, blah blah -- for people who only heard "kids" or "electric feel" and then here "flash delirium" or w/e, i'm not exactly sure that a lot of them are going to be enticed into hearing the whole album! that sounds as pretty close to "intentional career suicide" as a major label rock band can get

pretty hard NOT to read it as them*

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

exactly

actually it's been a long time since i tried to struggle through the first one but this sounds like way, way more affected

ok maybe if Kings of Leon had followed up their huge piece of shit with this, you could say it was reaching and/or a fuck you album. but this sounds EXACTLY like MGMT. if you heard this and had to guess who's new album it was, would you really get it wrong?

But it doesn't sound EXACTLY like GOOD MGMT. The whole thing sounds like the laziest album tracks from the last go-round.

commiseration to MGMT

sorry, i just think it's going to be annoying to read every review because they will all have the same meme, which is what you're saying now. An unexpected left-turn, intentionally difficult, in thrall to the sixties.
anytime a band makes a record with harmonies and reverb, people start talking about the sixties. or elephant six. it's lazy.

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?