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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 22 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26
Category: Music
Artist: Mgmt
Publisher: SonyBMG
Studio: SonyBMG
Manufacturer: SonyBMG
Label: SonyBMG
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 719512
UPC: 886971951226
EAN: 0886971951226
ASIN: B0010VD7EO
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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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 17 more reviews...
 Amazing May 9, 2008
it is so refreshing to finally have an album that simply is what it is. This is not trying to copy (thank god) all of this indy and emo crap that has contaminated the music industry for to long. This is a brilliant album with lots of twists and turns which allow you to listen to the songs over and over without getting bored. I am a lover of music and it feels so good to finally have a recently released album that is amazing. It kind of sounds like bowie meets daft punk for some songs and others i simply cant describe. Buy this album!!! anyone who gave it under 4 stars is simply insane. Also two other album i was very impressed by are The Last Shadow Puppets - Age Of The Understatement and Mystery Jets - Twenty One. Theyre all fab and well worth investigating.
Sam Mason.
bowie + electro-funk + psychedelia + synth hooks to die for = oracular spectacular May 7, 2008
I'm actually surprised by the 2 bad reviews this album has received because I've listened to the 'Time To Pretend' ep and Oracular Spectacular and have fallen in love with both. I originally avoided listening to MGMT because I believed they were most probably undeservingly over-hyped and a bit 'cooler-than-thou' for my liking. However, I'm sorry I procrastinated because now I literally can't get enough of their beautiful, psychedelic, Bowie-esque, electric gorgeousness. Oracular Spectacular is one of the best albums I've heard in ages and I'd urge anyone to give it a try.
THIS YEARS BEST ALBUM May 5, 2008
A great band is born, this album is full to the brim with good tracks the best being "Of moons birds and monsters" " The youth" and "pieces of what". It is an eclectic mix of many different genres which are all used to optimum effect and acheive a fantastic psychedellic genius result.
 Oracular Mediocre April 28, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you were hoping for an album that was of a similar ilk to Time to Pretend, you were probably, as I was, bitterly disappointed. Oracular Spectacular is seriously lacking dynamically, boring, even. I would've given the album a single star, but for the fact that Time to Pretend is brilliant, with its expanse of distorted bass and that brilliant chord-change in the bridge that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
My advice is to buy the single, unless you enjoy being underwhelmed.
Get a grip we are letting it slip April 23, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this album off the back of the reviews on this site. I have got to say it is a very very average album at best. First two tracks are good but it goes down hill quickly after a good opening two tracks. I have never felt the need to write a review before but I felt that let down with this album I felt the need to say, that artists get an easy ride when being reviewed by some of the users of this site. If you like rubbish like the scissor sisters and throw away pop music that you will not listen to again after maybe six months please purchase this album.
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