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As we head into the fall, we take a moment to gather information about some of the upcoming releases we and our readers are looking forward to. September 2 December 6 August 9 The unlikely hit duo talk about following their breakthrough record with something more difficult and divisive.

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Reviews 5. MGMT Congratulations. VanWyngarden has abandoned the hippy garb that made him an indie-disco heartthrob: when Oracular Spectacular took off, MGMT's gigs were marked by the unexpected arrival of screaming girls, not an eventuality that the Cleaners from Venus — best known for bequeathing the world the poet Martin Newell and the Times columnist Giles Smith — ever had to contend with.

His paisley shirt is buttoned to the neck, his tight black jeans are tucked into his Doc Martens and what's happening on top of his head may yet lead to a global shortage of hairspray.

Goldwasser, meanwhile, can put forward a more coherent argument than you might expect as to why now is the right time to release an album heavily influenced by the likes of the Deep Freeze Mice. Their music was really beautiful, he says, but, as with so many things in the mids, it was haunted by the fear of nuclear war: it sounded paranoid, which means it fits with the current times.

But, coherent argument or not, you can well imagine their record company's delight at the news that MGMT were making an album under the sway of Dan Treacy, a lavishly gifted songwriter cursed with an unerring appetite for self-sabotage.

Treacy's career eventually went so wildly off the rails he spent most of the 90s missing, presumed dead, only to be discovered on a prison ship, a homeless heroin addict serving a sentence for shoplifting.

Even Goldwasser, whose enthusiasm for Treacy's ouevre knows no bounds, seems a little startled that he is still alive. Whatever else Treacy may be, he's hardly a major label's role model of choice for a multi-platinum electro-pop duo.

They were happy that it was creatively …" He voice trails off and he tries again. At the same time, I think they were a little perplexed as to how to market it.

Indeed, the record label's attempts to market Congratulations to the kind of audience that bought Kids and Time to Pretend only made the situation worse. In an effort to build some pre-release excitement, they set up an in-the-studio interview with a thumpingly mainstream rock magazine. Alas, in much the same way that during their early encounters with the British press the pair "played up the stoner asshole persona", Goldwasser and VanWyngarden used it as an opportunity to make rather a meal of Congratulations' alleged uncommerciality, something you get the distinct impression they quite enjoy doing.

The pair dissolve into giggles again. This seems to happen quite a lot. It could be nerves, or it could be incredulity: either at the fact that making an album that sounds a bit different to their last one has caused such consternation, or at the sheer incongruity of sitting in a vast hotel suite discussing the work of the Deep Freeze Mice.

Equally, you could see it as snottily conspiratorial, as if Congratulations is a kind of prank in the spirit of those early shows, or inflicting Dan Treacy on unsuspecting gig-goers — a deliberate attempt to piss the people who made them rich and famous off.

VanWyngarden looks a little hurt at the suggestion. Some songs are nostalgic sounding, like they miss a past or innocence, while many others evoke a hedonistic style of music and life.

These guys are definitely doing something new here, but they are obviously heavily influenced by the past. The coarse, yet catchy and often danceable nature of Oracular Spectacular has been replaced with nine perfectly polished tunes that are often indistinguishable from one another. Skip to content. Share via: 0 Shares.

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