MGMT — Oracular Spectacular

MGMT are set to challenge MSTRKRFT in the battle for vowel-less supremacy and a solid album such as Oracular Spectacular is just the type of ammunition they'll need.

The album is full of burbling keyboards, gnarly guitars and hissy vocals, recalling Flaming Lips and various Elephant Six bands along the way. For what it's worth, "Weekend Wars" even sounds like a modern piece of ELO balladry. This is 100 per cent hipster kid fodder and might actually sound fresh to anyone born after 1986. To the rest of us, it's a companion piece to any slab of '70s, '80s or '90s psychedelia and/or prog, albeit with more contemporary production values and an eye firmly planted on the sounds of today.

Look for these guys to break big in 2008 and at least they'll be able to do so with an album of some merit.

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