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Oracular Spectacular | 
| Artist: Mgmt
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
Buy New: $7.99
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 29
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 719512
UPC: 886971951226
EAN: 0886971951226
ASIN: B0010VD7EO
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Time to Pretend | | • | Weekend Wars | | • | The Youth | | • | Electric Feel | | • | Kids | | • | 4th Dimensional Transition | | • | Pieces of What | | • | Of Moons, Birds & Monsters | | • | The Handshake | | • | Future Reflections |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk
The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. 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
Album Description
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
Album Description
Japanese pressing. Forty 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, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled Pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. The pair was drawn to the music of other duos and found themselves incorporating the implications of the hallucinatory power-twee of the Incredible String Band, the roaring subway minimalist Electronica of Suicide, the silky Pop-Soul of Hall & Oates, the pulsing narcotic trance of Spacemen 3, the avant-garde Industrial romanticism of Royal Trux and much more into the constantly evolving sounds of MGMT. This version includes enhanced version of music video, photo gallery, & instructive video. Sony. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 88 more reviews...
 MGMT stands for AWESOME December 29, 2008
Drew
I bought this cd because i really liked the song "electric feel" and often times when i buy a cd for one song, that ends up being the only song on the cd that i actually like. Not the case with MGMT's Oracle Spectacular, every song is truelly great. I find myself listening to the cd over and over again and never tire of it. Must-buy.
A song for every mood December 26, 2008
Laura (Portland, OR / Boston, MA)
I love this album. There are songs for every mood, and it's especially perfect to drive to. I cannot recommend this album enough, I really enjoy every song, though for me, "Electric Feel" has become one of my all-time favorites. Listen and enjoy.
Ween without glue? December 24, 2008
Jerry
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is fun. Plain and simple... but maybe not so simple...
Some of the track's lyrics have a deep thoughtful meaning if you want to look deeper, but if you're just looking for some catchy psychedelia to listen to while doing whatever it is you do, this is the album.
MGMT reminded me of why I got into music in the first place.
best stuff I have heard in ages! December 6, 2008
B. Howard (california)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
its nice for a band to come along and really get to me, this one does very great melodic tunes, and electric feel is my favorite :) I recommend this to people who enjoyed spoon and the ting tings
 Only two good songs December 3, 2008
Jacob Devries
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I listen to a lot of different genres of music. I recently heard MGMT's "time to pretend," and was very compelled to buy the CD. I normally don't buy CD's, but I found myself in a store that sells them (and I had consumed some lunch beers). I decided to roll with my inclination.
I popped the disk in almost immediately, on my way home, and reconfirmed that I like "Time to Pretend." I was also really grooving on "Electric Feel," but to my disappointment these are the only two songs that are unique and very enjoyable. The rest of the album sounds totally different. I don't really see what they are going for here. Some of it seems almost like a mockery of some very influential classic rock bands. I would have to recommend against buying the whole album. I would also have to recommend that this band do more drugs.... A LOT MORE DRUGS.
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