TAG: Congratulations

Sep28

MGMT Attacked With Pee + Label Orders a Leash Order on New Album

Being in a band, you constantly face a barrage of things on stage: from people looking bored, to possible riots and once in while fans throwing things at you to assault you or feel more connected to you. MGMT was playing in Manchester when someone threw a bottle of pee and it pelted Will Berman’s chest, I guess exploding all over him causing him to drown in the urine. So I mean as a regular human being, I would not want to come back onstage-especially because I was just humiliated. So the webs is saying how the band had to ‘plea’ him to come back and finish the set (which he didn’t forcing the band to finish the concert without him), because you know performers are robots and absolutely must ignore whatever ‘human emotions’ and let the crowd dictate what …

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Aug24

MGMT “Congratulations” Music Video (Video)

I have to point out that whoever is styling them is right on the money. This entire album the band has been extremely clean, cute, preppy yet scholarly and right on point with most of the seasonal trends. MGMT’s new video for “Congratulations” has our fashion forward boys sauntering through the desert underneath a blueish beige sky, guiding their inner spirit-watching it fall to pieces. Sounds like my typical Monday!

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Apr13

MGMT – Congratulations (Review)

MGMT

Congratulations

Released by Columbia


Congratulations is the second album from duo MGMT, one of the many great bands from hipster mecca Brooklyn. Following 2007's effortlessly catchy debut Oracular Spectacular, they worked with producer Pete "Sonic Boom," member of legendary psych-rockers Spacemen 3. They describe Congratulations as “a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence.” Say what? The new album is meant to be a complete body of songs rather than an album with standout singles, so if you expect another “Time To Pretend,” “Kids,” or “Electric Feel,” turn away right now. The production is ranging from '60s psych rock to '70s theatrical over-the-top compositions and is drenched in an obsession with Ray Davies, Syd Barrett, Ziggy Stardust and Marc Bolan. It’s a stylistic departure, a statement against the overwhelming rise to fame, and not wanting to meet expectations on the second album.

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Mar30

MGMT’s Weird “Flash Delirium” (Video)

Of course any video with ventriloquists and a homecoming party in a mansion (hint hint “Congratulations”) would be mildly amusing, but this video quickly takes a turn for the downright freaky. While the message might vaguely be something about the effects of war–literal or figurative–it’s not the easiest sell coming from a duo who admits to supping up on drugs between records to live the rockstar life. It takes a few viewings to piece together, and then the maddening bombardment of chords and images at the finale reveals itself as the birth of the surfing bear creature on the album’s cover…. maybe? At least that’s going full circle.

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Mar22

Don’t Fight the Leak: Stream MGMT’s “Congratulations” (MP3)

Livin' in the land of the leak! 

In case you, dear reader, are living under a rock OR have a serious daytime job/life/school and don’t cruise the blogosphere, then maybe you missed the leak of Congratulations. The boys and their label decided to embrace the leak and have posted the tracks on the band’s website. So far, it seems a bit soft and more pop-rock than the synthy and loveable psychedelia of Oracular Spectacular. Try “Someone’s Missing” first for that old-time MGMT sound. It’s all right here.

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