"With Congratulations, MGMT unlock a new musical world whirling in its own space/time grid infused with hints of music from the past five decades. Soulful and complex, Congratulations is a surprising and delightful quantum step forward in MGMT's ongoing pop revolution."I can say I've been waiting for this news quite eagerly for some time now. As we all I've got sick and tired to Electric Feel and especially Kids but the other songs on the record Oracular Spectacular promise there is an avalanche of talent rushing to our veins with the upcoming record. I read through a Steve Lillywhite interview (he is the guy who produced The La's album and scooped MGMT to Columbia). He stated that Oracular Spectacular is the tip of an ice-berg too big for many to understand. That without doubt MGMT is the most spectacular thing happening in pop music by miles. And I think this talk is not just for blowing his own bubble. I've met these guys two years ago on a work occation and got a little peek on what's going to happen to them after this record and the visions blew me away. Their precise description of the bands future had a ton of stuff I haven't heard from other bands included.
They are truly a band that doesn't comfort in sticking to a formula and they are bothered to think outside the box. A fact is also that they are really young and succeeded drasticly with their debut album so I can't imagine what to wait for. The stuff can be anything from a hit parade to a psychedelic avant-garde experience. I hope that they carry on with what the first one offered to us. Maybe without Kids of course. So much for the obvious babble and waste of your time.
In the promotional letter there was also a name put out as the producer. Mark Kember is one founding half of legendary Spaceman 3, which split up and the other hald Jason Pierce started the fabulous Spiritualized. Mark took on group Spectrum. He has also recorded as E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research) - the two projects have existed in parallel, and recordings under both names occasionally only feature Kember. Kember has also played and collaborated with Stereolab and Yo La Tengo. This in consideration of the future of MGMT must mean that Mark might give out expertise in experimental sounds and hopefully that the record focuses on the psychedelia in comparison to straigh out pop hit-parade.
Congratulations is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence: "It's Working," "Song for Dan Treacy," "Someone's Missing," "Flash Delirium," "I Found a Whistle," "Siberian Breaks," "Brian Eno," "Lady Dada's Nightmare," and "Congratulations."
and the record can be pre-ordered at whoismgmt.com
