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██▓▀ Album......[ Oracular Spectacular ▀▓██
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█▓ 01 Time To Pretend 4:21 ▓█
█▓ 02 Weekend Wars 4:12 ▓█
█▓ 03 The Youth 3:48 ▓█
█▓ 04 Electric Feel 3:49 ▓█
█▓ 05 Kids 5:02 ▓█
█▓ 06 4th Dimensional Transition 3:58 ▓█
█▓ 07 Pieces Of What 2:43 ▓█
█▓ 08 Of Moons, Birds & Monsters 4:46 ▓█
█▓ 09 The Handshake 3:39 ▓█
█▓ 10 Future Reflections 4:00 ▓█
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█░█ 40 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, the duo's █░█
█░█ much-anticipated first full-length album, 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. "We weren't trying to start a band," Ben █░█
█░█ remembers. "We were just hanging out, showing █░█
█░█ each other music that we liked." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Andrew and Ben realized that -- despite their █░█
█░█ opposing views on methodology (one is █░█
█░█ spontaneously practical, the other is practically █░█
█░█ spontaneous) -- they shared a common love of █░█
█░█ mystic paganism (ironic indeed on a campus named █░█
█░█ for the founder of Methodism), psychotropic █░█
█░█ sounds, and the belief that a joke (or a joke █░█
█░█ song) could be sad, profound, and funny at the █░█
█░█ same time. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ 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. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ As on-campus performance art provocateurs, Andrew █░█
█░█ and Ben began staging a series of "these █░█
█░█ obnoxious, noisy live electronic shows -- we █░█
█░█ never planned on having it be a recorded project █░█
█░█ -- where we would write these weird techno loops █░█
█░█ and arrangements that we could play with live. █░█
█░█ Most of it was running live off the computer and █░█
█░█ we had a turntable plugged into some guitar █░█
█░█ pedals, a radio, and a tape player. It was all █░█
█░█ electronically generated at that point. We would █░█
█░█ write a new song for each show and our shows █░█
█░█ would be 15 minutes long." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ The One Song/One Show ethos is manifest in the █░█
█░█ tracks of Oracular Spectacular, each song on the █░█
█░█ album shimmers with its own diamond-hard █░█
█░█ compression of elements interconnecting within █░█
█░█ MGMT's "unusual or unconventional pop █░█
█░█ structures." Continually inverting expectations, █░█
█░█ the music of MGMT owes as much to chaos theory as █░█
█░█ it does to fractal geometry. In contrast to the █░█
█░█ group's early live shows, which were mainly █░█
█░█ electronically generated, Oracular Spectacular is █░█
█░█ filled with "more traditional rock instruments: █░█
█░█ electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, █░█
█░█ synthesizers all played live." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Restlessly experimental and consumed with divine █░█
█░█ discontent, the members of MGMT embarked on a █░█
█░█ series of temporary guises. "We went on a tour █░█
█░█ with a drummer once," Andrew confesses, "after █░█
█░█ we'd written these weird California Creedence █░█
█░█ Clearwater-style songs in two weeks. We went █░█
█░█ out, played them, and never did the songs again. █░█
█░█ A lot of people hated it. That used to be the █░█
█░█ goal of our shows. We were still trying to be █░█
█░█ obnoxious and somehow people got into it. Some █░█
█░█ songs we wrote just because we wanted to learn █░█
█░█ how to be really bad within a certain genre and █░█
█░█ then people started liking the song because they █░█
█░█ liked the genre. It was an accident that people █░█
█░█ started liking us." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Some of those first fans included a group of NYU █░█
█░█ students who formed an indie label, Cantora █░█
█░█ Records, in order to issue the very first MGMT █░█
█░█ commercial release, Time To Pretend (a 6-song EP, █░█
█░█ currently available on iTunes). Two of the songs █░█
█░█ from that EP -- "Time To Pretend" (the MGMT █░█
█░█ "mission statement") and "Kids" ("filled with all █░█
█░█ those college feelings: naivety, idealism, █░█
█░█ nostalgia, happiness, sadness") -- have made it █░█
█░█ on to Oracular Spectacular. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Following the release of the EP and a couple of █░█
█░█ one-month long tours, MGMT took six months off, █░█
█░█ with Andrew moving to Brooklyn for a post-college █░█
█░█ "existential crisis" and Ben hanging out in █░█
█░█ Connecticut before heading to upstate New York to █░█
█░█ work woodland construction. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Following their hiatus from MGMT, Ben and Andrew █░█
█░█ reconnoitered in Brooklyn and began recording new █░█
█░█ songs for the sheer fun of it on an "Mbox █░█
█░█ computer set-up." Those humble home sessions -- █░█
█░█ at once Apollonian and Dionysian -- lay the █░█
█░█ groundwork for what would become Oracular █░█
█░█ Spectacular. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Oracular Spectacular opens with "Time To Pretend" █░█
█░█ ("fanciful but with an undercurrent of impending █░█
█░█ doom") and closes with "Future Reflections" █░█
█░█ ("premonitions of a post-apocalyptic future where █░█
█░█ colonies of young people live on the beach and █░█
█░█ lead savage yet refined primitive lifestyles and █░█
█░█ go surfing"). In between lie the refractions of █░█
█░█ the "current chaotic vibrations of the world" on █░█
█░█ a album which distills the essence of the past, █░█
█░█ promises and portends the future, and offers an █░█
█░█ absorbing transformative experience between the █░█
█░█ molecules in the pulsations of the present. Not █░█
█░█ to mention an authentic "4th Dimensional █░█
█░█ Transition." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "Kids are going to be inheriting their parents █░█
█░█ MP3 collections," Ben predicts. "And, in that █░█
█░█ aesthetic, corrupted MP3 files will be like the █░█
█░█ way people glorify scratched-up records now. In █░█
█░█ 20 years, people will listen to these 30th █░█
█░█ generation MP3s and say, 'I love that sound!'" █░█
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█░█ MGMT invites you to open your mind to the █░█
█░█ multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of █░█
█░█ Oracular Spectacular. █░█
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