I did a little review for my favorite music blog- Subservient Experiment.
It really is hard to follow-up MGMT’s first album, Oracular Spectacular, because of its greatness, but one must give the Brooklyn band credit for trying a new style. If you like “The Munsters” theme song, you might enjoy their new album Congratulations as well.
But the album falls short of its predecessor’s fun sound; All the tracks have a melodramatic sound with no differing changes between tracks and no overtly catchy tunes. For instance, if you were keen on “Kids” from Oracular Spectacular you may not like the new album. But if you happen to prefer a more mellow mix of whimsical keyboard noises this album could be for you.
“Song for Dan Treacy”–written for the (now-no-longer) unsung English cult musician and leader of Television Personalities, an implicit influence on MGMT–and “Flash Delirium” are definitely the gems of the bunch. Although not much different from all the other songs, they have something interesting about them that may ask for a second listen.
Fans have the opportunity to stream Congratulations in its entirety on the MGMT official Web site. The album will get its physical release April 13th.
-Laura Sliva
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Hi Laura,
On behalf of Columbia Records and MGMT many thanks for plugging "Congratulations" on your site (street date 13th April) … .. thanks, also, on behalf of the label, management and artist for not posting any pirate links to unreleased (studio) material and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then a full length version of "Flash Delirium" is available for fans and bloggers to link to / post / host etc at http://www.whoismgmt.com/ … .. for further details of the new album, on-line promotions, videos and 2010 shows, check-out the official site, as well as the artist's MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/mgmt and YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/mgmtmusic … .. and keep an eye on these official sources for details of further news, preview material and on-line promotions.
Also and as a goodwill gesture to fans and bloggers, an exclusive preview stream of the full album is currently available via the band’s website at http://www.whoismgmt.com … .. this is for hyper-linking ONLY and for streaming by fans directly off the band’s official website, so please reciprocate this goodwill gesture by NOT ripping or embedding these files.
Thanks again for your plug.
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