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Dear MGMT: 'Congratulations' for what exactly?

March 22, 2010 / Leave a Comment

MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, leaked online. So the band cleverly began to stream the new record on their site. In an even smarter move, the group punctuated the appearance of the album’s music with this simple statement: Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Columbia Records, Congratulations, Dewey Cox, Hipster Runoff, MGMT, music, Oracular Spectacular, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stone, Spoon, Stereogum, Vogue, Walk Hard

The Terrible Cover of MGMT's New Album

February 17, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Congratulations to MGMT. The Brooklyn “indie” act just released the cover for their sophomore LP, Congratulations, and it may be the worst album artwork I’ve seen all year: All other bands out there, take notice. MGMT has thrown down the gauntlet for atrocious cover craft, and it is quite the challenge. True, I’m not an … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Anthony Ausgang, Brooklyn, Congratulations, indie, MGMT, music

MGMT are indie rock's Goldman Sachs

October 21, 2009 / Leave a Comment

You know what sums up a zeitgeist? A new album from the hottest act made of private school educated, upper-middle-class kids obsessed with escapism, entitled Congratulations. Amiright? Nothing’s quite as representative of the Great Recession as MGMT, a band so steeped in reality their callow songs about being famous for the sake of fame actually came … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: AIG, Congratulations, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, MGMT, music, Oracular Spectacular, Paul McCartney, Said the Gramophone, Time To Pretend, Unemployment

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