Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

Oracular Spectacular, MGMT's debut album, arrived digitally on RED Ink on October 2, 2007, before Columbia put it in shops on January 22, 2008. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, who'd formed the band at Wesleyan University, recorded it with producer Dave Fridmann between March and April 2007, and Fridmann's lush, woozy production makes their dorm-room synth-pop sound like a psychedelic blockbuster. "Time to Pretend", re-recorded from an earlier release, opens the record as a mission statement whose theme runs through the rest; "Electric Feel" slinks along on a rubbery disco-funk groove, and "Kids" was the third single. It was a slow burner, never selling more than 17,000 in a week but moving at least 2,000 every week from January 2008 to April 2010, and a Justice remix of "Electric Feel" won a Grammy.

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