I think he gets that this album is a slow burner but I’m glad he can appreciate like, the density and songwriting on first listen. I could see it being a 9 or a 6 tho I have no idea
I was really into it on first listen, and it just keeps growing on me more with successive listens. The album has quite a few sugary "big moments" but is also every bit as stubbornly off-kilter and idiosyncratic as we've come to expect from these guys, so that you have to hear some parts a few times before you really get a handle on them. I'm more convinced than ever that they do not much care what anyone thinks of them, and are just writing the stuff they dig. Also, I wish I would have been patient and saved the singles for the album release, but I couldn't resist. Nothing to Declare would have been amazing to hear for the first time with the rest of the album. It remains a major highlight of the album (and their whole discography) for me, such a wistfully beautiful/dreamy little masterpiece.
I think these songs are eye opening, they make you think about life and how it’s finite and how we grow and find our place in all this, having a good life is not getting to some destination but instead more coming to terms with what you’ve been given and what you have, life is short and I have nothing to declare. We are just all on our own journey and people will always have it worse than others
This album has definitely grown on me. I thought a lot of the songs (except for Bubblegum Dog and Nothing to Declare, which I instantly liked) were kinda mid the first time I listened, but I like most of them now. I'd give it a solid 8.
Album is incredible, 10/10 with no exaggeration for me. It was everything I wanted and hoped for. People In The Streets might be my new favorite MGMT song, I’ve heard it a million times already since the album dropped.
@@Magic7ball that’s fine it just seems VERY odd to skip around on your first listen. I’m assuming he listened to it before the stream or maybe there were edits that I just didn’t notice. Would be kind of crazy to listen out of order as a critic
he will not review it. i just wanna hear him take part in celebrating how good this thing is. its what his show is about. celebrating and sharing thoughts.
Fanboys and girls will give this album 10/10 but must admit in their hearts that it's really a strong 6 light 7 at best. Listen to Little Dark Age (a solid 9/10) and you will understand.
I think the duds on LDA are much more often than on this project, I love that album but there are no skips on this one. Congratulations is still their best though, but the fact this is even close is amazing
lol you say in their hearts as if everyone experiences the music the same way. Have you ever played hip hop or something experimental for your parents? All they hear is shit and farts.. some people actually do love the album.. we all have different tastes.
Just depends on the person. I love LDA just like everyone else, but this appeals to my current taste. The beauty of these songs and the production really hits a specific spot that I don't really get from their previous works. I am biased, though. I am a fanboy.
even tho i completely disagree i can totally see where you're coming from, most mgmt fans are fans of kids and the synthpop sounds of LDA, im part of the minority that loved congratulations, and that likes more guitar music, so to me this is exactly what i wanted.
@@AndreLuiz-zf6wq I honestly started to enjoy MGMT with LDA, and I see this album as a good compromise. not as poppy, still very detailed and immersive
I haven’t stopped listening to it from front to back since it came out. 45 minutes goes by like nothing with this album, every track has so much replay value. I’d give it a 10 too, I had really high expectations because they’re my favorite band and my expectations were shattered.
my wifi shitted its pants during the first part so some parts are just missing; i didn't cut anything out except the buffering. i'm pretty sure i have at least a part of every track he listened to. follow fantano on twitch: twitch.tv/theneedledrop
I can't tell you how many times I read this as "my wife shitted its pants" and spent the longest time wondering why you refer to your wife as it. Took many times reading it to realize you said wifi
Probably because three singles have been out for a while, mother nature, nothing to declare, and bubblegum dog, have been out for a minute, so they’re probably looking at all the rest of the tracks
I think MGMT has a way of making music that maybe sounds basic on the surface and could be boring to people but it grows with multiple listens and more nuance unfolds. People didn’t like Congratulations when it first came out coming off of the poppy Oracular Spectacular.
It’s so good, I mean I hear the adult contemporary and the 80’s. But to me the albums just a slushwave album, like production wise and compositional the songs sound like desert memories to me? Idk why. Tho the album I’m in love with it, it’s up there with the album “a beginners mind”
