This fake was from Sordo

the real one leaked. I've been listening to this a lot this week. Siberian Breaks seemed slight at first because it's not as wacky as one would expect with a long 3-part song. but it's their most lovely moment.

cough cough cough

http://hotfile.com/dl/33621967/148fff6/par...savoce.rar.html

"Brian Eno" Makes me feel like I'm at The Wolfman's Spooky Scary Surfin Dance Party.

getting an Of Montreal vibe here

this is not a good thing IMO

beatles, beatles, everywhere.

i cant tell if what i dl from sordo is real or fake...but whatever ive just listened to for the last 30 minutes sucks

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/h7ymte17h%20h

then again i only liked 2 songs off the first album

edit: yeah thats definitely not the same as the link HB posted

Loving this record

not liking this record one iota.

i get the vibe they were going for, but there's not a single memorable melody through 2 listens for me.

then again i only liked 3-4 songs on the first one anyway

"We're always one step behind Brian Eno"? Is that a song lyric? Just how big is that step?

This record is hot as balls.

streaming at MGMT website;

Enjoyable fun pop; i'm liking this.

Is anyone hearing "Rocky Horror Picture Show" all over this?

It has that theatrical, bizzare element to it.

Great album from start to finish. Consistent. Fun. Pleasing melodies throughout.

So far I'm liking it more than their debut, but there isn't any song as great as Kids, Time to Pretend or Electric Feel, imo.

Very, very art / glam rock inspired. Duh. "Brian Eno" is the name of a song...haha.

record is better than the debut by some distance.

Completely agree. Really pleasantly surprised by this album.

http://www.whoismgmt.com/

Fun video for "Flash Delirium," a song which has proven to be genius.

love this band, and they are real humble, and all the great artists are from or living in Brooklyn, when did Brooklyn become artistic enclave?

none of them are from brooklyn jigga. williamsburg has been hip for quite a while now.

on first listen this is quite pleasing to the ear. richly melodic, robust production, intriguing songwriting. none of these songs seem to have much structure to them, they're all suite-like. it could ultimately prove to be fleeting but maybe not - flash delirium is the only track i've heard multiple times and i've liked it more each time i've heard it. it's surprising how completely different this is from the first album; it could easily pass for the work of another band. even their voices sound like different people. the songwriting approach is totally different. i thought oracular spectacular was crap outside of the singles, but this is something else entirely.

As someone that doesn't even like all three of the mega singles from the last one ('Kids' if you were wondering) I wasn't really looking forward to listening to it. It's very ho-hum, some interesting ideas poorly executed and some terrible ones quite well.

Like I think others they've tried to cram too many half songs onto it. There's probably a couple of really good songs in "Siberian Breaks" but by the end of it I've forgotten what the start sounds like. Lots of references which made me think of The Who c. 1967, The Small Faces, Zombies even VU c. Loaded.

"Brian Eno" sounds like Sparks.

i can appreciate what they were attempting, but sadly there's a lot of bands who what they did WAY better

the pitchfork review is pretty much spot on. the more streamlined songs are the best, every song has some quality elements to it, but overall there are too many ideas at work here and it's not always the best ones that get feature run times. nevertheless the fact that they were able to write numerous quality songs and bits here as well as the singles on OS shows that they do have talent and will be worth following in the future.

i've slowly come to the realization that this album is really fucking good. pretty much throughout too, nary a weak patch for me. i was having brunch at an antique shop a few months ago and someone's missing came on in the background, and my ears perked up immediately. since then, i've been coming back to it, every few weeks, finding more and more to love. today, listening to it on my lunch break, i picked out a leonard cohen reference in siberian breaks, a song which sounds far more solid now than it did when it first previewed the album. dunno, but i can't think of an album more damned by expectations than this one. bionic, maybe, but that album is actually weak, whereas this one is just good, just different than what people seemed to want from mgmt.

"Someone's Missing" is really quite good. But the rest of it is too unexciting for me to bother with. I admire their want to pursue the psychedelic/60s thing, but they'd be a much better band if they could harness some more of those great hooks they had going in the Oracular singles.

Yeah. This album is pretty much the tits. Coming from someone who was a hesitant fan of even their catchiest songs from the last album. Track 2, Flash Delirium, thatsongbeforebrianeno, Brian Eno, and the last track are all top tits or unfuckwithable as you guys say. The rest range from pretty good to not so bad.

These guys are real.

Album of the year so far with me, and I didn't even know Oracular Spectacular until after I heard this.

OTM

i respectfully disagree with the lack-of-hooks charge. what someone's missing made me realize is that the hooks on the album are there, just brief and sly. instead of basing entire songs around a massive earworm (ala kids), they slip into these flash-hooks, little flourishes and lines that disappear almost as quick as they sink in. i love the way that the instrumentation changes throughout, vocals gain harmonies, which later fall away. it's an intricate pop album, but far from unexciting for me. i love picking up on these little touches they snuck into the album.

and at the same time, the psych rock route works better for them, than it does for bands who've based their entire careers around it. i appreciate and enjoy the black lips and thee oh sees, but i don't see how their music is any more exciting, catchy or lovingly crafted as this one.

STEOTM.

Just about the most fun album I've heard all year. There are maybe 3 songs on the record that I never listen to individually, but they still are pleasant enough within the context of the album. Would definitely be in my top 10 if i were the kind of guy who made such lists.