MGMT

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Good interview.

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MGMT Tap Spacemen 3’s Pete Kember to Produce Oracular Spectacular Follow-Up
8/5/2009 By Stephenson Price

While some bands might take up to 18 years between albums, phonetically unchallenged psychedelic pop rockers MGMT won’t let a little something like time stand in their way.

Fresh off the success of their 2008 breakthrough album Oracular Spectacular, Brooklyn duo Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden have teamed up with Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember (of legendary drone rock outfit Spacemen 3) to record their sophomore album, tentatively titled Congratulations.

“[The album] has an overall air of electronic exuberance, quirky instrumental introspection and their trademark soul-searching crescendos of psychedelia,” Kember told NME. “They aren't looking to make Oracular Spectacular 1.2. Without a doubt the new album is broader in its sounds, arrangements and emotions than anything they've done before — it's set to be an avatar of its era.”

As fans may recall, MGMT’s debut was helmed by long-time Flaming Lips associate Dave Fridmann; the sound and production of Oracular Spectacular indeed echoing of the Flaming Lips’ 1999 release The Soft Bulletin, which Fridmann also produced.

Since the demise of Spacemen 3, Kember has pursued numerous solo projects under various monikers, including Experimental Audio Research (E.A.R.) and Spectrum, exploring sounds and genres of drastically different natures, such as Memphis soul and Radiophonic-era synth pastorals. It was at a recent Spectrum show in London that Kember met the duo, and thus their relationship together commenced, as he began producing the pair’s recording sessions in Malibu shortly afterwards.

In recent months, MGMT have been previewing several new tracks at their concerts that may be featured on the upcoming album, including “It's Working,” “Congratulations,” “Song For Dan Treacy,” “Destrokk” and “Flash Delirium.”

A release date has yet to be set for Congratulations, though VanWyngarden has said in past interviews that the album will likely be released in January of 2010.


Kember (Sonic Boom) and MGMT

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[DivaDiana77]

Congratulations came out and kinda sucked.

There's way better examples of psychedelic music out there. Not worth the purchase price. Get the old one, though.

[GMinotaur]

It's going to take a few more listens but it's nowhere near as catchy (some say that's a good thing, and that the band attracted the wrong fan base with the first one... oh well).

You can stream the entire album on the band's web site:

http://www.whoismgmt.com/us/home

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The first two songs are fantastic. Like Cornelius and J-Pop of that kind without the annoying vocals.

[DivaDiana77]

I'll give it another go, but if it leaves me flat, I'm not buying it.

They may have attracted the "wrong" fan base, but that's why creating music you actually like is important. I think they did really like it and now they're just trying to be intellectual and it's a bit of a turnoff. But hey, all those fickle people will be happy to dump this band for another and take the CD to the resale store. Now, let's see what happens on their third album. They will either turn out hits, tread water, or sink like stones. We've seen this all before.

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The wrong fan base. That is funny.

@#$%@$^ These aren't the fans I wanted!!!
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[fat cherry]

The wrong fan base. That is funny.

@#$%@$^ These aren't the fans I wanted!!!
@#$%@#^$%^

i reckon thats a fairly common outcome, especially amongst the boy bands and girl bands, looking out over a sea of pre-teens with their mums standing at the back. Do well out of it though - double the ticket sales for a start and then by the time the fan base are fifteen and allowed out on their own there's the reunion tour to do. ASk Take That and Boyzone.

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I don't think MGMT has much to worry about in the fan category.


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The excited pulse of the crowd was quite tangible as MGMT took the stage at In the Venue Friday night. Both under-age youngsters and over-age scenester's alike came to witness the group that became an almost overnight success with hits like "Electric Feel," "Kids," and "Time to Pretend." MGMT's deviation with their new release from the 'Electric Feel' of their earlier album Oracular Spectacular, didn't diminish the overall turnout of the musical event as the show sold out. The venue was just as packed as ever with bodies pressed together and lining the walls eager to catch the sounds of the Brooklyn-based dynamic duo Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. Or at least, they were eager to catch their earlier sounds.

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i reckon thats a fairly common outcome, especially amongst the boy bands and girl bands, looking out over a sea of pre-teens with their mums standing at the back. Do well out of it though - double the ticket sales for a start and then by the time the fan base are fifteen and allowed out on their own there's the reunion tour to do. ASk Take That and Boyzone.

Or Julian Cope. I read his memoirs and they were very funny about that. Said if only they got close enough to smell him they wouldn't have wanted anything to do with him. Developed a habit of wearing the same clothing and not bathing on tour. It's funny and weird.