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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0886971951219
Format: Enhanced
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 17220
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- 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 Review:
Album Description:
MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - fantastic album
I like this album quite a lot. for me mgmt are a real revelation. the vinyl also sounds quite good.
Rating:  - Enhanced album means crap
1st I downloaded this album of a torrent site and fell in love with the whole album so naturally I bought this record for my collection, enhanced must means its a totally different master then the cd version. The low end(bass) seems like it was cranked to the max and sounds distorted and indistinct from the mid. Great band and album, terrible vinyl!
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.
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Rating: - Oracular! Spectacular!
This album is fantastic. Hot diggety! Do you like music? MGMT is to your music collection what star anise is to chinese five spice. Bloomin essential! Woot Woot!
ps this is a serious review. I love this album, and so will you.
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EAN: 0886971951219
Format: Enhanced
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 17220
Studio: Sony