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With Congratulations, MGMT offer a heartfelt "Hear! Hear!" and an invitation to join the group in a new musical odyssey mirroring the psyches of the band's core duo, Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, inspired by their adventures on the frontiers of 21st century pop & roll consciousness.
A comedy of manners of the mind, Congratulations finds MGMT's droll humor simmering in songs full of melodic invention and lyric mystery while opening up a luxurious new world of sound and sensation. A collection of nine complex and soulful musical tours de force written and recorded throughout most of 2009, Congratulations creates its own space and time with hints of music from the past five decades whirling in its etherous atmosphere.
It's Working, the album's opener, deliberately focuses the album's mystic energies while asking the age-old musical question, "How will I know if it's working right?" (If you're not afraid you've taken too much, goes the old saying, then you probably haven't taken enough.)
For Andrew and Ben, Congratulations meant paying homage to their heroes with tracks like Song For Dan Treacy, written for the (now-no-longer) unsung English cult musician and leader of Television Personalities, an implicit influence on MGMT, who would become a fan of the band.
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LOVE MGMT! Saw them at Red Rocks 6.11; it was amazing!
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