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RE: NEW MGMT ALBUM(EN) [_yolk_] ;

Slogged-out as rebellion, or the choice of eating sturgeon for dinner, I'm sitting here on my couch at 1:00 a.m. on Monday morning listening to clips and phrases like "electric juicer lining" and "ice cream hose to kiss" emanating from Congratulations. I'm not going to be pretentious enough to stilt this into a "real" music review. But I do it from that spirit when I say that perhaps MGMT has "punked" as all here with this one. I think it's pretty chill.

Well, I'd like to write more, but I'm gonna take some ecstasy and set off on my moped now, listening of course to "It's Working" (which is, of course, about MDMA)

From the article:
"With Congratulations, the knowing smartasses of Oracular Spectacular seem confused about what's next. The result is a hazy, hit-and-miss album that will likely alienate some fans of the debut, but one that also testifies to MGMT's restlessness as songwriters and human beings. "It's Working," a song VanWyngarden describes as about the drug Ecstasy, mixes surf guitars, harpsichord glitter and bong patters with some less-than-ecstatic lyrics: "I see the signs of aging/But if I try to feel at all, I am deceived," VanWyngarden sings."

Well, eat a dick, guys! Congratulations rules! Mad chill!