Under new MGMT

Of Montreal–woops, ahem–MGMT had the world eating out of the palm of their hands just a couple of years ago. Their sophomore album, 2007’s Oracular Spectacular, launched them straight into the sky where they, apparently, found a whole lot of instruments.

Congratulations, the band’s third and highly-anticipated LP, will be released April 13th on Columbia Records.

From listening to a recently released track, “Flash Delirium”, one can deduce that the band is going as ‘all out’ as possible. This anthemic beast of a track grabs uncut psychosis-inducing elements from the psychedelic rock of days long past, fuzzed out waves of lo-fi garage rock madness, and lone flute solos, and injects a cocktail of the said elements into the bloodstream of their synth-driven pop/rock system. In short, this track goes from playfully simple synthy pop to downright demented really quickly. It’s kind of impressive. I don’t normally use number ratings but I give this a ‘holy hell’ out of 10. Easily.

MGMT – Flash Delirium

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