Oracular Spectacular

Description

MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular.The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. Here is a band that treats dizzy cross-eyed awe and a vast bounding sense of sonic weightlessness as their yardstick, jostling to surpass themselves on a track-by-track basis and aiming for the musical equivalent of performing somersaults in tye-dye t-shirts off the rings of Jupiter. MGMT seemingly submit this debut album as an application to acquire and even supersede The Flaming Lips' previously uncontested mantle as spiritual leaders of over-sized Technicolor psychedelic-indie with a soul, weird but not so weird that swelling crowds and even flirtations with the charts aren't a foregone conclusion. "Time to Pretend" opens and sets a tone for the record, producer David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) providing a familiar expanse for them to riff across with bull's-eye synths, massive drums and their twist on the ...

Manufacturer

Sony

Release Date

Jan 22, 2008 (23 months ago)

DATE/2008/01/22/12/00/00/AM

Price

$6.70

6.699999809265137

Original URL

http://www.amazon.com/Oracular-Spectacular-MGMT/dp/B0010VD7EO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249968877&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Oracular-Spectacular-MGMT/dp/B0010VD7EO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249968877&sr=8-1