MGMT--Oracular Spectacular

It was a CD I’d walked by many times, skipping over it from the prejudgement of a dude in a man scarf and the other in face paint. But MGMT’s album is very nearly the opposite of the assumed self-indulgent hipness. The opening track “Time to Pretend” sets the mood of wanting to reach for the cocaine and models but understanding the good life is never all 8-balls and legs. Oracular is the happiest possible love child of the Klaxons and Animal Collective: the near perfect “Kids” is the song to yearn for summer to with it’s playground beat and understated lyrics. Until the left coast gloom lifts, there’s the hopeful reprieve of the song: “show yourself, take only what you need from it.” Overall, Proof you can overlook exactly what you need if you’re not open to it.