Crazy new song

appear to be playing secret shows in australia next week.

song is okay. starts out pretty bad though. i was hoping they would put out an album with more than 2 good songs, but things are not looking good.

Even though it took a few listens to get into Flash Delirium, I like it. I liked the stranger songs on the last album and totally dug Metanoia, so maybe that's why. If they wanted to go the poppy Kids route or the direction it looks like they chose on the new album, I'd be along for the ride because I think they can craft a damn fine tune.

The lyrics are insane.

The nod to Dan Treacy is pretty cool
And i also heard that they have some pretty awesome , obscure opening acts on there next big tour

Not to get all Montana in here, but this band is SO worthless.

Yeah they have the staying power of a unripe bananna
But they are halfway decent as far as chart-topping rock acts go
They beat the hell out of the OneRepublic,RHCP's of this world

that new song has some decent hooks. it's probably better than the crappy filler that oracular spectacular was mostly composed of, but it certainly isn't as good as the singles.

Not liking the new song, man those lyrics are painful.

On one hand I applaud MGMT for resisting the urge to lazily cater to fans of "Kids" and "Electric Feel." Then again, as one of those people (and who thought those were the only worthwhile songs on their debut,) I can't help but listen to these new tracks as a giant "fuck you" for expecting more singles in that vein.

Oh well, there goes any shred of interest i had in this.

Lazily catering...it takes talent and effort to write memorable songs. I know, I know...constant "reinvention" is the name of the game on the SOMB.

great song! If the name of the game is 'singles' for an artist to get big, I think MGMT have secured themselves as a force for 2010

nope

This song is unremarkable in every single way. 100% bonafide album filler material.

man, i didn't realize this was the mgmt backlash thread. where's the real one?

well that soundly dashed my hope of hearing an ebullient synth riff or three...

They aren't releasing any singles from this and have stressed the album should be consumed as one.

Agreed...they should be building on and expanding the sound they nailed so well on their great singles...this sounds like a regression. Disappointing.

I love the idea behind this as I almost always listen to albums as a whole. But if they really felt that way then why would they just release one song like this? It doesn't seem to support the 'listen to this as an album' claim.

This band is so obnoxious.

What's going on here? People see a thread for MGMT's new album and drop in just to post something like: This Band Sucks, etc. If you aren't interested in the band read (and post in) a different thread. This one is for people actually interested.

It's actually for anyone registered on the Sound Opinions Message Board.

This seems to be a common misconception around here.

Band sucks btw.

lol

I suppose I can clarify that I mean the band and its chosen path is obnoxious, not necessarily the music. At this point the whole "album as complete statement" song and dance is reactionary and stupid for any band, but triply so for a band who's identity is so tied to their singles. Put this next to their live show, well, "obnoxious" seems to about cover it.

do you remember when people used to actually discuss music here? yeah, me neither. there are way fewer photos of boners posted since the lopp schism though.

Find one picture of a boner on the whole board. Not even really sure what you are trying to say here.

Please don't.

By the way, this band is just mind-numbingly awful.

i didn't think i could hate this band MORE then I already did.

truly one of the most atrocious bands of recent memory.

i'm terrible with the archives here. but i remember a couple years back when, well, i forget who it was, undercooked sausage maybe, was slipping hardcore stuff into like every thread. or just creating a whole bunch of random ass threads, so when i'd check somb in the morning, there would be like ten new ones started over night.

bear in mind that i'm not complaining. i like the anarchic side of the somb, as well as the cantankerous, pissy parts too. and i like mgmt, at least enough to defend them. but i was basically trying to point out that as long as i've been on the somb, there have been people derailing discussion. i've seen this complaints like phlow's come up repeatedly, recently, and i just don't get them. you like a band, stick up for them, you don't, then it's all fair game.

Ok, I initially thought that you were fighting my comment but it seems we are in agreement then.

Glad I checked. I don't hate MGMT either, I just think they have no real redeeming qualities or characteristics. Dumb fluff pretty much.

Electric Feel, Time to Pretend, Kids, The Youth, Weekend Wars, Of Moons, Birds & Monsters: All are excellent standout tracks. That's 6 out of 10 tracks. Is that not enough to constitute a great album, or at least very good?

first album certainly had some great songs, but boy is this band lame as SHIT live. they still just play Kids to a backing tape and dance around.

If a peppy synth line is all it takes to constitute a song as excellent, I guess Time to Pretend and Kids qualify, but the rest of those are decent at best, imho.

I will cede the fact that Electric Feel is a good song. Kids, perhaps. The rest of that album is dreck.

I like this band's past singles, but this new one is just awful.

There were three good songs on Oracular Spectacular; the singles. In fact, they were more than just good. "Kids" is a banging song and one of the best indie crossovers of the past decade. If this second record is supposedly sans singles and goes down the path of the much less exciting album tracks, then colour me disinterested.

Also solace OTM, band sucks donkey dick live.

One positive thing I will say about Congratulations is that I think the album cover is kinda rad.

yeah, the cover almost sparked some hope in me for the album. and I'll give you that Electric Feels is good, but I find Time to Pretend and Kids to be the two true standouts.

Maybe you're talking about posts like mine? I am actually interested in this band. I still enjoy Oracular Spectacular and liked their set at Lollapalooza in '08.

But the new song is lame. It's a hodgepodge of uninteresting ideas that just turned out bland. I'm not pulling for this band to fail, by any means. I want more stuff like Electric Feel and The Handshake.

I wasn't referring to your post. And I do agree the new song ain't worth shit, unfortunately. You can scroll through the post to find the posters I was referring to pretty easily.

I love the new song, I think it's totally brilliant, but not catchy.

I loved "Time to Pretend" and "Kids" but also the non-singles on Oracular: "Weekend Wars" "The Youth" "The Handshake" "Future Reflections" are all great. Always hated "Electric Feel"

second new song is much better. sounds like early 70's british invasion psych folk stuff. more in line with the youth, but a little toned down. nice stuff, not mind blowing, but a better augur of good stuff than that first song.

From http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/mus...ratulations.htm:

Last Friday Sony Music ran a competition where MGMT fans were given the chance to hear the band’s new album Congratulations. Following a series of clues that led us to Sydney’s Hyde Park, FasterLouder managed to secure ourselves one of ten seats in a blacked-out van. After being bundled into the vehicle we were handed an MP3 player along with a pad of paper and crayons.

For the next forty minutes or so we were driven around the city listening to Congratulations whilst ( upon request ) drawing our ‘feelings’ about each song. We were not allowed to take notes and had to hand back our master artworks at the journey’s end.

Following this strange experience we sat down and tapped out a review of Congratulations ( from memory I might add ), and here are our first impressions.


MGMT – Congratulations

Brooklyn’s MGMT achieved everything a debut artist could ever dream of. A Grammy nomination for Kids, a win for the Justice remix of Electric Feel, global adulation, truckloads of records sold and a generation-defining track in Time To Pretend with lyrics like “I’m in the prime of my life. Let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.”

The irony is that they’ve gone and created Congratulations, released worldwide on Sony on April 13. Let’s get it straight from the start. This is not Kids Part 2. Hell, it’s not even Oracular Spectacular Part 2. They could have easily made some money, grabbed those models and swum forever in rivers of gold. But on their sophomore album MGMT have shed their skin and grown up in front of our ears.

If you saw them on their world tour in 2009, you’d have a sense that something was changing. The easy-flowing taut pop of their debut morphed into drawn-out, lengthy soundscapes on stage. MGMT was already clawing at the edges of the box they had built.

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden have stated they are trying to subvert the traditional with this. “We’d rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio – if anything gets played on the radio!” Ben Goldwasseer told NME in January, eschewing the need for singles.

Unfortunately the music industry is harder to escape than that, as the release of the title track ‘Congratulations’ shows (call it what you want, it’s still a lead single).

But even when trying, MGMT can’t avoid melodies. Take Brian Eno, the glaringly obvious stand-out track on the album. A homage to the Roxy Music pioneer (“We’re always one step behind him, he’s Brian Eno”), it draws influences from multiple genres before feeding them back through Goldwasser and VanWyngarden’s stoned-out heads to create a tune that refuses to leave your head.

Their high benchmark is nowhere more evident than on Siberian Breaks, a mammoth 12-minute track that could easily be three songs rolled into one. In the middle, it breaks down so much that you’re convinced another song has begun. I Found A Whistle is another highlight, slowing the pace down to AIR-like beauty, while Lady Dada’s Nightmare – a not-so-veiled stab at Lady Gaga that’s even verbally mentioned in the Sonic Boom spoken word intro – trips the light fantastic. It begins innocently enough, and then the mangled garble of a woman screaming takes over the track until it descends into a cacophony of sound.

Heard the record. It kind of reminds me of Fiery Furnaces, esp. Siberian Breaks. This band is a lot better on album than live, clearly. First two songs are great, third song is Motown in an echo chamber. "It's Working" or "Dan Treacy" really should have been the first impression for people.

Minuteslate, can you tell me if this is it?

http://demgmtfiles.com/en/files/h7ymte17h/...ratulations.rar

link would need to work before verification was possible, wouldn't it?

mgmt = posi

sorry, I couldn't get it in time to check.

track times are like this: 407, 409, 230, 416, 340, 1210, 432, 431, 357. Though I probably just helped people make fakes.

Oh yeah this isnt even remotely close to those times.

I'm sitting in a meeting, so I can't verify it, but Sordo has a link for it.