Tour Dates
04/06/10 Metro Theatre Sydney
Free Download04/07/10 Metro Theatre Sydney 04/12/10 Fillmore San Francisco, CA 04/13/10 Fillmore San Francisco, CA 04/17/10 Coachella Indio, CA 04/29/10 Mod Club Toronto 05/02/10 Bamboozle East Rutherford, NJ 05/31/10 Sasquatch Festival George, WA 06/11/10 Red Rocks Morrison, CO 06/18/10 Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL 09/16/10 Olympia Dublin 09/20/10 Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow 09/23/10 02 Academy Birmingham 09/24/10 02 Academy Bournemouth 09/26/10 Manchester Apollo 09/29/10 Brixton Academy London 09/30/10 Brixton Academy London Download "Flash Delirium" via MGMT Congratulations website. Discography
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Between you and me, I do not think offering downloads will harm MGMT at all. I think this will just serve to help them in the long run. In fact, the duo actually gave their Oracular Spectacular album originally as a "demo" album called Climbing to New Lows a few years before signing to Columbia Records/Sony Music. Despite giving away their music, they still end up pretty well-off as history have proven.Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted to offer it as a free download but that didn't make sense to anyone but us.
Oracular Spectacular went on to become one of the hottest album of 2007, debuting #1 on Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and #12 on the UK album chart. I believe this is based on a number of things, like their visual imagery and music videos, but for the most part, the internet has a huge role in their success.
Since then, their music's (mostly their single "Kids") have been included on a number of games and movies.
So, where do we find MGMT's Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden this time around? Congratulations feels to me like a winding musical journey through modern pop music. There are the obvious pop/single songs ("Flash Delirium"), but overall, this 9-track album works as one piece.
As for the journey bit, there is one song that really stood out for me: "Siberian Breaks". This epic number is basically ten or twelve different songs. It shifts, it changes melodies and lyrics and will confuse you into think it's both an old time 60s folk and 80s synth and the future music. This is one of my favorite track from the album, because it's so different, yet still remain in that MGMT universe of mixing and mending different music and sounds.
In regards to synths, to me that the band's been heavily influenced by electronic-dance type music, so it's not a wonder to find that they gave a nod to Brian Eno on their song, "Brian Eno". Although that song contains a more upbeat/rock music with a ton of lyrics, it's clearly the all instrumental track, "Lady Dada's Nightmare", that is trying to emulate Eno. In addition to that homage, they also must love post-punk with "Song For Dan Treacy" (a tribute to 80s band Television Personalities).
So, I guess congratulations are in order for MGMT's Congratulations. Based on what I've heard and seen, they are going to do really well. If you're not convince, listen to their album on whoismgmt.com. The album comes out April 13th, via Columbia Records
I leave you now with their video for "Flash Delirium". The video is very strange, with bizarre characters and costumes. The whole thing, directed by Andreas Nilsson, feels like it was inspired by David Cronenberg's Videodrome. Read what you will, but that phallic worm thing and sticking into this hole in the machine, just looks disgusting and sexual. Awesome video, right?
04/03/2010 02:42:46♥ vu (
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