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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 [...]

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 [...]

With all the recent talk of MGMT’s second full-length, Congratulations, it seems an interesting choice for Sigur Ros frontman, Jonsi Birgisson, to cover the lead-off track from their previous album on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge on Saturday. Jonsi’s take on “Time to Pretend” is a complete transformation from the original, featuring only piano and [...]

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 [...]

Is MGMT ‘letting every1 down’? I know I was pretty cranky yesterday re: this new MGMT situation, but, apparently, the band apologized on Spinner for their clusterfark, “Flash Delirium,” admitting that it was more of a joke at first than a serious single for Congratulations. “When we first wrote that song, we were laughing so [...]

I feel as though this video cheapens the authentic weirdness of MGMT’s single, “Flash Delirium” (as much as I don’t like its authentic weirdness to begin with). This makes them look like a couple of stoners goofing off in their Brooklyn apartment – probably because that’s exactly what it is. Forgive my brashness, but MGMT’s [...]

MGMT played a secret show last night at NYC’s Mercury Lounge under the name “The Smirking Worm,” and some website called Youtube taped the whole thing! I just made myself LOL. The band debuted tracks from their upcoming sophomore album, Congratulations, including “Flash Delirium,” which I’m still trying to wrap my head around. Below are [...]

Wow. MGMT are offering up a track (not the single?), “Flash Delirium,” from their upcoming, long-awaited sophomore album, Congratulations. We were warned, guys. I am still navigating my way through this retro, psychedelic clusterfark of styles, instruments, melodies, and rhythms. That flute solo is confusing me, among lots of other things. Actually, “Flash Delirium” seems [...]