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It’s rare that the final track of an album is its most telling, but Brooklyn-based alternative rock band MGMT??s sophomore release, “Congratulations,” achieves just that with its title track; an acoustic ode to success and the acclam that accompanies it. The song, much like their debut album’s opener, “Time To Pretend,” is puzzlingly ironic, in that one is pretty sure it is ironic, but can only guess to what extent. Whereas “Time to Pretend?...
...their debut album “Oracular Spectacular,” MGMT??comprised of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyndarden—traversed a wide variety of styles, achieving most success with the psychedelic synthpop hit “Kids.” For their second album, however, the group have refused to release any singles. Instead they recorded a cohesive body of work meant to be heard in one continuous sitting. As such, “Congratulations” contains no songs that come close to the New Order-inspired thrills of “Kids...
...point, a continuation of their over-the-top music. And after turning Roseland Ballroom into a big sexually ambiguous mosh pit just over a week ago and turning out a pretty respectable cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” accompanied by MGMT??s Andrew Van Wyngarden (with whom Barnes is now collaborating on a side project), Of Montreal look to do the same to the Orpheum on Oct. 30. But while it will probably overwhelm, “Skeletal Lamping” definitely doesn’t astound. The collage...
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