MGMT: Congratulations | CD review

(Columbia)MGMT's rock star-spoofing Time to Pretend single turned them into rock stars, but the follow-up to unit-shifting debut Oracular Spectacular seems designed to reverse the process. Spacemen 3's drug-enhanced explorer Sonic Boom produces an album that the band insist won't spawn any singles, which means Radio 1 playlisters won't be confronted with the likes of Lady Dada's Nightmare, a demented Pink Floydian fantasy of ponderous organs and screaming. The rest of the album isn't bad, just b...

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