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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”

[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)

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)