| Oracular Spectacular | 
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| Artist: Mgmt
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 719512
UPC: 886971951226
EAN: 0886971951226
ASIN: B0010VD7EO
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Time To Pretend | | • | Weekend Wars | | • | Youth | | • | Electric Feel | | • | Kids | | • | 4th Dimensional Transition | | • | Pieces Of What | | • | Of Moons Birds And Monsters | | • | Handshake | | • | Future Reflections | | • | Electric Feel |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Not bad October 6, 2008
Best way to descibe this album is,the first half is good the other half is pritty rubbish!.The first six of these songs are defenately worth a listen but the other four are just fillers but considering I got this CD for six quid Im pritty happy!.
 unexpected September 25, 2008
I bought this album off the back of a couple of songs I'd heard here and there. For maybe the first few listens I was thinking that actually those few songs I'd heard were the only really excellent tracks on there - the rest being ok, but nothing special.
Listen on tho!
Really worth it - some bits are growers, but now I am completely in love with this album!
 Superb September 23, 2008
No need for a long winded review! Superb album, hope the follow up is just as good!
oracular spectacular - sooo true!! September 22, 2008
This album is amazing! A fresh new sound that deserves to be listened to, its going to be hard for them to improve but from listening to this album their musical talents shine through and i have no doubt that they will provide great music for years to come! their music is like a new modern version of the 70's, 'electro 70's' music!
if you want something new and you're a real music fan - you will love this!
Not bad for a debut. September 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an avid consumer of live music, maybe I made a mistake in experiencing the trippy tones of this band by watching their Reading set on the BBC website. They sounded terrific and had 3 top songs, and a 4th (The Handshake) that started off great but turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax with a melody destroying chant at the end of the song.
However, what I heard from the other 3 songs persuaded me to get their debut album only to leave me feeling decidedly flat. Their live sound is far far superior to their studio sound. The songs just don't make me feel as good.
Another disappointment is the rather lacklustre and 'muddy' sound to an otherwise super tune, called 'Electric Feel.' On the band's Myspace page they have a different mix, which is lighter and hits the spot perfectly.
This is a band I would definately go and see live, as for buying their follow up album without hearing it first, that's another question.
If, however, you haven't heard them live and have no idea how good they sound as a live band, then you can buy this cd and won't have anything to judge it against. Two thirds of the songs are indeed good songs so I'm sure it'll still be a worthwhile purchase. I just prefer their live sound.
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