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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia) ***
IMAGINE having your ears pinned back like Alex's eyes in A Clockwork Orange and being submerged in a bottomless sonic swamp of Hall & Oates, Talking Heads, Elton John, Plastic Ono Band, Beefheart, Zappa and, erm, Mika. In their bippety-boppity clothes Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser look and sound like something the Scissor Sisters were scared of and left in their dressing up box.
MGMT's self-styled future '70s' aural pleasures are instantly seductive and even if debut single Time To Pretend leaves you feeling slightly grubby, at least they're not The Kills. Following the opening salvo, The Handshake, Weekend Wars and the freak power of 4th Dimensional Transition inject synthesiser sin directly into your collapsing synapses.
9:41am Friday 21st March 2008
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