MGMT , Oracular Spectacular
MGMTOracular Spectacular(Columbia)Annunciate Rating: * * * *Verdict: Brooklyn electronic rock duo give forth sparks on dreamy debutIt took bands like The Flame Lips - MGMT's natural predecessors with whom they share a producer in Mercury Rev's Dave Fridmann - age to feel a way to glue in good order tunes to their grand piano musical comedy visions.Just the Brooklyn-based duo of Ben Goldwasser and Saint Andrew the Apostle Vanwyngarden seem to take launch where the meat hooks are kept betimes in their calling. And it's those tunes that is the making of their first genre-mashing electro-psychedelic junket. MGMT seem to experience a ground a way of making it sound effortlessly, sweetly tuneful and warping pop history to their possess weird whims. That's properly from the indelible opener Time to Profess (a very Lips-ish data track pondering the hazards of the rock 'n' roll modus vivendi), through the falsetto funk of Electric car Feel, the grand synthesised Kids, the 60s pop baroque era of The Younker to the country-rock of Pieces of What.
They can audio a little like Ween around the edges and it is hard to get them in earnest - specially when the psychedelic nuttiness gets the better of the tunes on the likes of later tracks like 4th Dimensional Transition and the closing Future tense Reflections.Mostly, Oracular Spectacular is a kaleidoscopic wonder.
