In their newest clip for Congratulations title track, MGMT continue to display symptoms of Flash Delirium alongside a live, decaying sand alien.

There is a moment towards the end of Air’s “It’s Working” remix where you realize that this should have been the version released by MGMT. As much as Congratulations has managed to grow on me in the past few months, there is nothing as triumphant as Air’s reinterpretation of the album’s best track. The remix [...]

MGMT brought two of the best tracks off of Congratulations (still officially unrated) to Jimmy Fallon last night. “It’s Working” and “Congratulations” are both featured in the video above. The ‘bonus song’ that Fallon mentions at the end is a web exclusive performance of “Time to Pretend” from the more officially rated Oracular Spectacular. Still [...]

The live television performances of MGMT’s Congratulations tracks are steadily improving, but the crowd still hesitates to applaud at the end of “Brian Eno”, above, and Letterman’s sign-off couldn’t have been more awkward if it were preceded by Andrew VanWyngarden breaking a tiny guitar against his amp and then getting it stuck on his cape [...]

MGMT are taking a few weeks off after this weekend’s Bamboozle performance (which included “Kids”) before setting out on a summer long North American tour in support of [the interesting, conversation sparking] Congratulations. Dates added to the list include Radio City in NYC, which will now be their final date in the US before heading [...]

It would seem that MGMT are in on it. Between not playing any of their beloved singles at festival appearances (though, my sources say they did do “Kids” yesterday at Bamboozle), to “not giving” a “sh*t” if people say the album sucks, to letting that weird wide-eyed guy steal the show on their SNL appearance, [...]

MGMT took Congratulations to SNL last night, and they seem to have somehow managed to make their already challenging new material even less accessible live. The jury is still out on my official numerical opinion of the album, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hum along to “Flash Delirium,” above. However, I’d [...]

Oh boy.
Less than two weeks before its highly anticipated release, Columbia has announced that it has shelved MGMT’s sophomore album, Congratulations, indefinitely, and has dropped the band from the label. The album, which has been streaming on the band’s official site for about a week, has been the subject of much debate in the music [...]

6.5

I think MGMT has a case of Flash Delirium.
I understand that one shouldn’t expect a band to top [label] debut albums like Oracular Spectacular, and that sometimes the best way to approach a follow-up after a record like that is to drastically change your formula. But on Congratulations, MGMT stray so far from the sounds [...]

Rumor has it (and I know nothing of such things) that the leak of MGMT’s Congratulations started spreading pretty heavily over the weekend. Therefor, there is a full album stream happening at the Whoismgmt site this morning.
Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted [...]