Those rascalian (I could’ve sworn that was a proper word), electro Gypsy-wannabes from the future MGMT have revealed the details for their second album “Congratulations”, the followup to 2007′s almost album of the year “Oracular Spectacular”. It has a release date of April 13th and their site has a countdown to it, currently at 62:23:17:11. Also on their site is a link to “Preorder” that states “Check back this week for an exclusive MGMT pre-order offer!”, so we may have some album artwork on the way too.
Band member Andrew Vanwyngarden spoke to Spin about the new album after they waterboarded him until he gave up the information they were looking for: The tracklisting for “Congratulations”:
“It’s Working”
“Song for Dan Treacy”
“Someone’s Missing”
“Flash Delirium”
“I Found a Whistle”
“Siberian Breaks”
“Brian Eno”
“Lady Dada’s Nightmare”
“Congratulations”
“It’s definitely going to shock people,” Vanwyngarden recently told SPIN.com of the new album’s sound. “We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are.”
Congratulations‘ nine songs are “sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence.” And according to Vanwyngarden, the album moves from “Lady Dada’s Nightmare,” a “very nightmare-ish sounding” instrumental track inspired by the “Poker Face” pop star, to “Congratulations,” a song written about fame and the “worldwide economic crisis.” Through it all, he said, there’s one unifying influence: surfing, a sport he picked up while recording in Malibu.
“There’s a surfing thread throughout the record,” he explained, citing another new song, called “It’s Working.” “When you’re surfing, there’s a specific break you’re paddling to. And when the waves are really good you say, ‘It’s working.’ The song kind of has a surf-y vibe. It’s like surfing on ecstasy!”
(via Spin)
