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Oracular Spectacular | 
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| Artist: Mgmt
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 80
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 719512
UPC: 886971951226
EAN: 0886971951226
ASIN: B0010VD7EO
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Time To Pretend | | • | Weekend Wars | | • | Youth | | • | Electric Feel | | • | Kids | | • | 4th Dimensional Transition | | • | Pieces Of What | | • | Of Moons Birds And Monsters | | • | Handshake | | • | Future Reflections | | • | Electric Feel |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactly right. 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 template--retro 80s electro and abstract shapes, see Suicide and the Talking Heads for reference. "The Youth" is centred around a hypnotically looping refrain that recalls Pink Floyd and David Bowie, as interpreted by a mellow Secret Machines and the brilliant "Pieces of What" is Ryan Adams spinning through cosmos with classic Neil Young on his headphones. "Future Reflections" meanwhile stand on its hands on a line somewhere in-between XTC and Ween. Thrillingly eclectic, endlessly colourful and never predictable. It's all a bit ridiculous, but indeed spectacularly so. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Flippin' right good! November 26, 2008
Will
Sorry for this short and lazy review - which is no reflection of my feelings for this album. Oracular Spectacular is superb, MGMT is superb. And going for a bargain price at the time of writing too!
 Let's Go To Frinton November 14, 2008
Merlin Beard (London)
See how they prance on the beach. Look at the hippy's long pink shorts. Aren't they cheeky?
Good little pop number this - will never set the world alight, but a fun-filled head-nodder. Pop should be fun I think! This is as much fun as when Michael Jackson cut down a tree with his hand, or when Madonna wore coffee filters on her boobies.
Magical November 8, 2008
D Jones (Cardiff, Wales)
Truely amazing debut.Stand out tracks are 'The youth', 'time to pretend', 'the kids' and 'eletric feel' The whole album can be listened to again and again as the track never seem to get old. BUY IT NOW!!!!
One of the best in recent years! November 6, 2008
S. B. Janse Rensburg (England)
This album is spectacular! There isn't one track I don't like & what I find amazing is that it keeps me intrigued even after listening to it a hundred times. There is so much to discover on this album & I enjoy the way they have clearly drawn inspiration from various older artists, but innovatively added a modern twist to it & definitely made it their own. Great live band too! I would recommend this to anyone!
Not bad October 6, 2008
Mr. Matthew R. Walsh (UK)
Best way to descibe this album is,the first half is good the other half is pritty rubbish!.The first six of these songs are defenately worth a listen but the other four are just fillers but considering I got this CD for six quid Im pritty happy!.
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