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BLACKSTARKIDS Get Real With Puppies Forever

Spin 14 Oct 2021
There’s something to admire about the effervescent gleam that radiates from BLACKSTARKIDS ... The trio—consisting of Ty, The Babe Gabe and Deiondre—manages to infuse diverse musical influences into the experimental sounds they create ... Credit ... You knowWeezer’s ‘Blue’ [album] was a huge inspiration on Whatever, Manso was Oracular Spectacular ... .
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Le Guess Who? Preview #1: Black Country, New Road

The Quietus 16 Jun 2021
After a year's break in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Le Guess Who? returns to Utrecht for a full in-person event this November ... Each year, the Jaarbeurs Utrecht space houses more than 500 record-dealing stands across 12,500 square meters of floor space ... MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising and Dexter Gordon's Go ... LE ... LE ... LE.
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Ben Ricketts’ Songs for Ruined X-Rays Sounds Like Hope

Memphis Flyer 17 Jul 2020
No one is as DIY as Ben Rickets ... In these songs, you’ll hear a lot of things ... The Blow’s “True Affection,” The Flaming LipsYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , Animal Collective, and, to hit closer to home, MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular ... “I wanna give you spaceships on Mars,” Ricketts sings ... ....
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InnerSpeaker Turns 10

Stereogum 21 May 2020
Before Kevin Parker could write psychedelic rock’s future, he had to rewrite its past ... The involvement of Fridmann, who had worked closely with the Flaming Lips for years and produced MGMT’s smash hit debut album Oracular Spectacular, instantly connected Tame Impala to their immediate forebears in psych-pop crossover stardom ... .
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Albums turning 10 this week: The punk, the atrocious and the unexpected

Montana Kaimin 18 Apr 2020
G.B.H. “Perfume and Piss”. Not many British street punk bands from the late ‘70s survived the speed and raw venom of their music and time, but somehow G.B.H. did. “Perfume and Piss” is the punk outfit’s 11th album released April 6, 2010 ... As it should be ... What does a band like MGMT do after 2008’s “Oracular Spectacular?” Whatever they damn well please ... .
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Congratulations Turns 10

Stereogum 13 Apr 2020
haha, jk and also phew.) The singles from Oracular Spectacular, MGMT’s 2007 debut album, had spent nearly two years building to a point of cultural saturation ... Singles aside, Oracular Spectacular was a genuine psychedelic odyssey, discursive and trippy ... Oracular Spectacular ...
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This week’s best bets for music in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal 15 Nov 2019
MGMT. These alt-rock square pegs have never made two albums that sound alike, though their most recent record, 2018’s excellent “Little Dark Age,” does mine the motley electro adventurism of their breakout 2007 debut, “Oracular Spectacular,” to a greater extent than the two albums that prefaced it ... Built to Spill ... .
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This week’s 5 best bets for music in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal 14 Nov 2019
MGMT. These alt-rock square pegs have never made two albums that sound alike, though their most recent record, 2018’s excellent “Little Dark Age,” does mine the motley electro adventurism of their breakout 2007 debut, “Oracular Spectacular,” to a greater extent than the two albums that prefaced it ... Built to Spill ... .
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Day N Vegas festival leads November’s concert slate

Las Vegas Review-Journal 29 Oct 2019
There will be a whole lot of Lil’s. Twelve, to be exact ... And it’s off to a roaring start ... Now for the rest. ... Madonna, Nov ... On latest album “Little Dark Age,” alt-rock duo MGMT veers back — kind of — to the free-range electro pop of its 2007 debut, “Oracular Spectacular,” continuing to zig when others zag ... .
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Man On The Moon Turns 10

Stereogum 13 Sep 2019
Last month, Travis Scott released Look Mom I Can Fly, a documentary centered around his blockbuster 2018 album Astroworld ... He made young listeners feel like they were heard, like he was speaking for them, while cherry-picking sounds (and collaborators) from recent hit albums like Kanye’s Graduation and MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular ... .
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Turns 10

Stereogum 24 May 2019
The year was 2009; the song was “1901.” Even more so than “My Girls,” “Two Weeks,” and “Stillness Is The Move” — and arguably only eclipsed by the long-tail dominance of Oracular Spectacular’s troika of hits — the ...
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