We'll be honest, 'the singles' aside, we thought MGMT's debut Oracular Spectacular was a bit of an over-hyped disappointment. Now, following a series of leaks from their second album, the band have put a track online as an official free download. It doesn't classify itself as a single or anything, it's just a track, so it doesn't give much indication of, well anything at all actually. It's called 'Flash Delirium' and it sounds similar, if not identical, to this:Here are some things we think about it in a chronological we-are-listening-to-it-as-we-type-type-fashion:
0:00-0:19 All very John Shuttleworth to begin with.
0:22 Bit of a mess.
0:34 Sort of a 1960s mess.
0:40 Actually we're quite enjoying the mess.
0:51 And now a hint of Pulp.
1:03 Actually very Pulp (Different Class era).
1:42 Bit Fraggle Rock.
1:51 There's that silly casio again.
1:57 Oh and a flute!
2:10 Trippy.
2:24 Trippy and dull.
2:37 Bowie.
2:52 That's a bit more MGMT.
3:07 There's the 'hint of a tune' we were after.
4:01 What a noise.
So, overall, bit of a mess. What did the press release say again?
"Congratulations is the successor to Oracular Spectacular...and is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence...MGMT unlock a new musical world whirling in its own space/time grid infused with hints of music from the past five decades. Soulful and complex, Congratulations is a surprising and delightful quantum step forward in MGMT's ongoing pop revolution."
Translation: Let's pass it off as an arty project using some convoluted guff which actually means "OK, we know it's a bit of a mess".
Congratulations is out on Monday 12th April.
UPDATE: We've had about five listens now, and it actually starts to make a bit more sense.
It's still not going to be very fun on Singstar though is it?
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