Album Review: MGMT - "Congratulations"

MGMT - Congratulations

I recently checked this album out at the library. I really love MGMT's first album Oracular Spectacular and its very poppy catchy tunes, but this album is very different from OA. I think that in many ways this album can be seen as the 2000's version of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. The album takes you on a trip from the dark areas of pop, to the melodramatic aesthetics of dark wave-synth music. There is certainly nothing catchy about this album...rather it's can be seen as a journey...a listening experience into the psyche of the modern world. The thing about this album is that the music is so hard to pigeon-hole, there are no labels for it...it's just weird-ass music, and that's what I love about it. The video for their single Congratulations is evidence of the strangeness of MGMT's music with the bizzare creature falling apart in the sand dunes...it's almost reminiscent of David Lynch's film Eraserhead, the way that the creature moves much like the strange baby creature in the film moves. At any rate I suggest picking up this album if your into eclectic music...I give it 4 Stars.