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Oracular Spectacular by: Mgmt List Price: CDN$ 14.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 9.99 You Save: CDN$5.00 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886971951226 Format: Enhanced Label: Sony Music Canada Inc. Manufacturer: Sony Music Canada Inc. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Music Canada Inc. Release Date: January 22, 2008 Studio: Sony Music Canada Inc. Sales Rank: 38 MPN: 719512 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Oracular Spectacular's intriguing cover image features two members of what looks to be the Lost Tribe of Androgynously Handsome Nu-Rave Hippie Natives from Thunderdome. The boys on the cover are MGMT, the highly talented, multi-instrumentalist duo of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden. Bowie, Muse, Pulp, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Daft Punk, and other major players in the canon of postmodern pomp-pop clearly loom large in MGMT's universe. The group's lyrics play figurative dress-up, too, as when, on "Time to Pretend," the pair imagine that they're already rich and famous. But like the worst of Bowie (Tin Machine, anyone?), these lyrics and music unfortunately ring false, not unreal, per se, but as if not enough effort were put into the endeavor. Stylistically divergent songs like "The Handshake," "Youth," "Electric Feel," and "Weekend Wars" have a lot going for them, and the album is ultimately a promising debut. It just happens to sound like a wayward mix tape. Hopefully, successive albums will have both the cojones and the cohesion missing here. --Mike McGonigal Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A FRESHLY AWESOME SOUNDThis album has a freshly awesome sound, its got electric beats mixed with rock and spacey melodies. Super Fresh sound! And unlike anything I have recently heard. I highly recommend it for people who think its about time we had a musical/spiritual/natural re-evolution. Rating:  - Spectacular "Oracular"Putting a label on the debut album by MGMT is a toughie. They're sort of a synth-psychedelic-space-indie-noisepop band. And they break an awful lot of rules in their debut album "Oracular Spectacular," a vibrant, colorful little album that sounds like a cascade of summer flowers. They have a few wrinkles yet to iron out, but their music has a unique and striking sound, and they obviously know how to craft solid pop music with a foot-tapping beat, and a slightly eerie sound. It opens with squeaks, bubbling noises, and finally with a slow-building electric riff smothered in twisted synth. "I'm feelin' rough, I'm feelin' raw, I'm in the prime of my life/Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives... ... Read More: |
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