All I’m going to say about this is that I have no idea what the fuck is going on.  If you can figure it out, please let me know.

Listen to their previous singles below.

MGMT – “Flash Delirium”
MGMT – “Congratulations”

(via WeListenForYou)

No seriously, someone tell me what the fridge was going on there.

I’ve already spoken about DOM and how they’ll light up your summer, but now The Hood Internet, with their wily musical mashuping ways, have gone and taken that to the next level by mixing DOM’s “Living In America” with T-Pain’s “Reverse Gowgirl”.  The result?  Well it’s either an MGMT-sounding T-Pain, or a Coolio-sounding DOM, or a mashup of both but I’ll let you be the judge.

Bochicha!

The Hood Internet – T-Pain vs. Dom – “Cowgirl In America”

Have you seen this video yet?  It’s pretty freaky, with talking throats and shit, but before you watch the making of, watch the whole thing in its original form first.

MGMT are playing Letterman tonight but they’re also doing a live webcast of the entire gig, a 45 minute set “encompassing songs from both albums”.  Their second album “Congratulations” was released last month to completely polarising reviews, many either hating it or loving it.  A lot of those who said they hated it were basing it off of their love for the first album, and a lot of the ones who said they loved it were basing it off of their dislike for the first album.

You’ll just have to give it a listen for yourself and decide.

You can watch the whole set below live from 8pm EST and in the meantime listen to the songs “Congratulations” and “Flash Delirium” and watch the video for the latter.

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MGMT – “Flash Delirium”
MGMT – “Congratulations”

If you’re not ready for summer yet (personally I’m ready for summer as soon as the fucking snow shows up) then DOM is about to remedy that.

DOM is a band of musical renegades from Worcester, Massachusetts, much like Lorenzo Lamas (not from Worcester) and fronted by Dom, who looks nothing like Lorenzo Lamas, but he does have long hair.  It’s difficult to gauge just how much of their backstory is true because the interviews they give are not only hilarious, but tinged with implausibilities and far-fetched stories.  For instance, on their MySpace page they list a band member as “Bochicha” and in an interview with Pitchfork Dom himself said that Bochicha is his pet cat and that the Worcester Sharks (local hockey team) used the song as their face-off song.  Pitchfork contacted the team and they said they don’t play it at all.

I love the fact that they can give interviews and just talk shite throughout the whole thing and not care about whether they get their message across or if they answer the interviewer’s every question.  Their music however is every bit as auspicious as the band should be, like a fuzzed-up, lo-fi, chillwaved cross between Passion Pit and pre-Congratulations MGMT.

Remember a couple of years back when Time To Pretend was inescapable and was being played on every radio station, car stereo, beach-bound boombox and movie/TV show you were exposed to?  Well that’s how DOM’s “Living In America” will be, the lead track from their debut EP “Sun Bronzed Greek Gods”. I spoke to Dom on MySpace and he said it was cool for me to post some songs for you to listen to and download, so prepare those head-holes for the sound of your summer. Also watch their official video for “Living In America” and a live performance of “Burn Bridges” recorded at the start of April in New York.

“Sun Bronzed Greek Gods” is available for 10″ vinyl pre-order via Burning Mill Records (but be quick because they’ve already sold out of their first pressing and are onto their second), and in MP3 format from Amazon.

DOM – “Living In America”
DOM – “Rude As Jude”
DOM – “Burn Bridges”
DOM – “Jesus”

Keep up to date with DOM – MySpace | Twitter | Label (Burning Mill Records)

I stumbled upon Cleast Eatwood last week and their mesmerising video for “Get Related” and proceeded to scramble around teh interwebs to find more of their music, and find I did.  Unfortunately they only have a handful of songs available at the moment but they do have plans for an album, they’re just not sure when yet.

This month they’re releasing their ethereal cover version of MGMT’s “Electric Feel” on a Ministry Of Sound compilation as well as a mini-collection with Via Snella‘s founder Lina Zedig, but to tide you over until that’s released and until an album comes out, they’ve let me post the below three songs; “Sad Machine“, “Get Related“, and their cover of “Electric Feel“.  You can also see their video for “Get Related” and their “Making Of Cleast Eatwood”.

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Keep up to date with Cleast Eatwood – MySpace | Tumbler | YouTube

Credit where credit’s due, the only reason I got this is thanks to Twitter, WeListenForYou, TheMusicNinja, and PrettyMuchAmazing.

It’s a pretty weird (good) video, for a somewhat mediocre song, at least until the last quarter of it when it really kicks in. Flash Delirium is out now as a free download and you can pre-order MGMT’s second album due out on April 13th.

Pre-order “Congratulations” – Amazon

[Update] For some unknown reason Spinner have removed all known traces of the stream, however I got my hands on the MP3, so check it out below.

MGMT are set to release their much anticipated second album “Congratulations” in the next couple of months and the guys over at Spinner have an exclusive first listen of the song “Flash Delirium”. Check it out below and let me know what you think.

Also, thanks to WeAllWantSomeone you can hear the title track “Congratulations” too.

[Update] Ok, so after listening to it repeatedly, I really really like it.  It starts of quietly and ends epicly (new word).  Now I can’t wait for the album to drop.

(via MGMT)

MGMT have just announced that from today U.S. residents can preorder “Congratulations”  from their store with three options available.  It’ll be available from April 13th:

1. Standard CD – $11
2. Limited Edition CD – $13 - Scratch off front cover with custom metal coin, 32 page booklet of photos and lyrics
3. Vinyl LP – $25 - 12″ Double LP pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl, Limited Edition Scratch Off Cover, Digital Download Card Included

Each version also has the option of adding a limited edition lithograph for $4 that will be numbered and only available through the preorder phase.

Still no artwork though.

(via MGMT)

With vocals dark and somewhat incomprehensible, reminiscent of those by The Knife on “We Share Our Mother’s Health”, drums methodic and cavernous, and the sound of someone rhythmically beating the crap out of a steel pipe in the background, Odd Blood’s opening song “The Children” is nothing like the rest of the album, an eclectic head-banger of an Indie-Dance album that’s guaranteed to get you off your ass, waving your hands and kicking your feet.

“Odd Blood” is Yeasayer’s (Chris Keating, Anand Wilder, and Ira Wolf Tuton) second album, their first “All Hour Cymbals” released in 2007 to huge critical acclaim was largely regarded as genre-bending, spacing gaps between genres where other bands failed to.  “Ambling Alp” you have no doubt heard somewhere, even if you don’t know it by name or association. It’s an infectious pounder with singer Chris Keating harmonising the catchiest chorus you’ll hear all year (even though it came out in 2009), lyrics straight from “Old Man Schmelling”’s words of wisdom cook book; “Now, the world can be an unfair place it at times/But your lows will have their complement of highs/If anyone should cheat, take advantage of, or beat you/Raise your head and wear your wounds with pride”. If it hasn’t already, “Ambling Alp” is sure to be remixed a thousand times over and played on dance floors across the nation.

Next up is “Madder Red”, a dense Depeche Mode-inspired ballad, rife with resonating drums and a chunky bass line that shakes through to your chest. The contagious backing vocals of Keating, Wilder, and Tuton are spread throughout, ensuring you’ll have it stuck in your head for days on end, your only reprieve being to listen to a different song on the album which in turn will have the same effect. Keating’s falsetto rears it’s beautiful and mesmerizing head on “I Remember”, a divine recollection of love in its prime; “I remember making love on a Sunday/Like throwing hearts in a fresh cut grass in May, wooah/I remember making out on an airplane/Still afraid of flying but with you I’d die today, wooah/I remember the smell of your skin forever/Love us being stupid together, wooah”. Watch out for this one being covered by someone with an acoustic guitar and it showing up in movies and TV shows (in the same vein as Iron & Wine’s cover of “Such Great Heights”), it’s an exquisite love song that deserves it’s day in the sun.

Odd Blood’s second single “O.N.E” is equally as catchy as “Ambling Alp”, a delayed guitar riff that’s played repeatedly is accompanied by a samba-like beat, taking you through the streets on a float and dancing over and over again. Another sure-fire dance floor hit and with the middle 8/outro being the album’s most Soul/Saturday Night Fever moment, when it reaches it’s end at 5:25 you’re left with only one option: Repeat. After you’ve listened to “O.N.E.” four times in a row you might want to check out the rest of the album. “Love Me Girl” and “Rome” fall flat compared to the highs of “I Remember” and “O.N.E.”, with no catchy choruses or hooks of distinction, the former employing sounds of birds that don’t quite fit in and the latter having a huge tribal drum beat and 80’s synth that work but ultimately lead to nowhere, you’d be forgiven for wanting to move on to the next track.

“Mondegreen” is a hand-clap led powerhouse, funky bass line, horns, and scratchy wailing guitar solo in tow, you start off clapping your hands along from side to side, then find yourself on your feet and flailing them out in front of you as if trying to kick a tiny invisible alien who’s after your fresh supply acorns (aliens eat acorns, right?) and end the song sitting back down and trying to catch your breath as the little alien gives up his futile attempts and whines the song away.  Album closer “Grizelda” comes and goes  from nothing into something and back again, the hand-claps sporadic, spirally synths present but hanging back as they let the child-like backing vocals and pulsating drums punch through amidst Keating’s backstage vocals.  It’s not the ending to the album I was hoping for (personally I would’ve put “Mondegreen” last) but it still fits.

“Odd Blood” is an album that may need a couple of listens before you can definitively come to a conclusion as to whether you just like it or whether you just love it.  It’s an album that’s slightly front-loaded with anthems and back-loaded with songs that many other bands would kill to have. Either way you can’t go wrong with listening to “Odd Blood” for the next six weeks straight and if you do, you’ll be glad you did. If you don’t, well then you’ll have just wasted six weeks of your life.

8.5/10

Worth checking out: Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, MGMT

Buy “Odd Blood” / Download “Odd Blood”

Listen Before You Buy: “Odd Blood”

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)