Pete for President
09-12-2013, 11:23 AM
A new self titled album by MGMT, stream it here:
The New MGMT Album + the Optimizer (http://mgmt.rdioexclusives.com/)
I was already familiar with opening track "Alien Days", which I really like. But after listening to 2/3's of the album and skipping back through the songs I realized none of the other tracks stuck. In fact, the only thing I remembered about any of them was a certain level of "wtf"-factor. Problem being; every melody, lyric, chord progression, or any sound in general is so distorted, warped or echoed hardly any of it is recognizable.
Not to mention some of the songs are nothing more than the most cliche of chord progressions at the core (Introspection, Plenty of Girls in the Sea), while the rest dwells somewhere in between the realms of ambient soundscapes and actual songs. No-mans-land, really.
So that's a big disappointment on first listen. I really thought MGMT would reinvent themselves with powerful, quirky and spaced out tunes. Unfortunately only the space out part is true, but with nothing to stand on the result is out of grasp even for someone who loves psychedelic stuff as much as I do.
Thoughts?
The New MGMT Album + the Optimizer (http://mgmt.rdioexclusives.com/)
I was already familiar with opening track "Alien Days", which I really like. But after listening to 2/3's of the album and skipping back through the songs I realized none of the other tracks stuck. In fact, the only thing I remembered about any of them was a certain level of "wtf"-factor. Problem being; every melody, lyric, chord progression, or any sound in general is so distorted, warped or echoed hardly any of it is recognizable.
Not to mention some of the songs are nothing more than the most cliche of chord progressions at the core (Introspection, Plenty of Girls in the Sea), while the rest dwells somewhere in between the realms of ambient soundscapes and actual songs. No-mans-land, really.
So that's a big disappointment on first listen. I really thought MGMT would reinvent themselves with powerful, quirky and spaced out tunes. Unfortunately only the space out part is true, but with nothing to stand on the result is out of grasp even for someone who loves psychedelic stuff as much as I do.
Thoughts?