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Generally favorable reviews- based on 119 Ratings
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Positive: 69 out of 119
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Mixed: 31 out of 119
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Negative: 19 out of 119
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Sep 26, 2013
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Sep 18, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013
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Sep 18, 2013
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Oct 8, 2013This is simply terrible. There are plenty of great bands who combine adventurousness and risk-taking with solid songs. This sounds like throwing ideas against a wall and having no sense of songwriting, flow, melody, or musicianship. What did these songs sound like before they got produced?
Absolutely a case of emperor's new clothes for anyone who thinks this is better than a 2. -
Sep 17, 2013
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Sep 26, 2013To say that this album is the worst thing the band has ever done would be kind. It tries oh so desperately to pass itself off as something fresh, interesting, arty and unusual, but succeeds only in convincing us that the band have already peaked. Overrated nonsense.
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Sep 27, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013I'm not the biggest fan of MGMT's previous two records but this new weird stuff is really my cup of tea. It's experimental, complex and psychedelic. It reminds me of Flaming Lips, Of Montreal, Tame Impala or Animal Collective and The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (more than anything else). 8.5/10
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Sep 17, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013Fantastic follow up to Congratulations. Definitely not the album I was expecting after hearing Alien Days. I feel like these guys are just getting started.
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Sep 20, 2013
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Sep 18, 2013
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Sep 18, 2013Honestly, the best MGMT album yet. It is evident that they wanted to experiment and experiment they did. It's upsetting that people still hold them up to Kids & Electric Feel. I had heard rumors that they were going to make this album more appealing to that crowd but I am so glad that it is exactly the opposite. Keep on making magical ear candy, MGMT!
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Nov 3, 2013
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Oct 28, 2013
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Sep 19, 2013
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Sep 30, 2013In our opinion the best song on their new album is Your Life Is A Lie. Itās a psychedelic teasing to all their fans. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser did their best to sound different, more abstract, more psychedelic. http://backstagetour.co/mgmt-mgmt-review/130/
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Oct 7, 2013Don't listen to the hipsters passing this off as some sort of art-masterpiece.
It's not.
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Jun 15, 2014A very good album that's tragically underrated. "I Love You Too, Death" is probably my favorite track, it's gorgeous. If you don't like this album, give it a few more listens. It'll grow on you.
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Mar 14, 2018No entiendo las malas criticas , me parece un disco muy cohesivo y que carga mucho sentimiento .
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Dec 31, 2013
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Oct 10, 2013
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Oct 1, 2013
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Feb 20, 2014
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Oct 9, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 23, 2013
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Oct 21, 2013First half of the album is great. Alien Days is superb but the second half is a bit boring (except Plenty Of Girls... which is really catchy).
Mindless, pandering reviewers will rate this 1 or 2 points without a second listen. This album can grow on you if you have an open mind. -
Nov 25, 2013It is a pale copy of what true psychedelic music can be, but they do their own stuff and it is fabulous. I am not all crazy over their album, but the deluxe edition is definitely worth it. It comes with the Optimizer which s a movie for the whole album and it is very very very trippy.
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Apr 13, 2014
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Apr 7, 2014
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Jan 14, 2015Following the musical path of MGMT is an interesting one to say the least. They refuse to sell out are unafraid of laying their musical discourse on the table, without pretense and refuse to pander to expectations. This their 3rd album provides a number of recognisable MGMT classics but on the most part is overly melancholic and at times a little drab. Still worth a butchers though.
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Feb 15, 2018
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Jan 5, 2018The first four songs are great and worth the listen for them alone. Maybe I'm feeling a little "Pet Sounds" right now, but I can't stand when people dog an album because it doesn't sound like the others. Who gives a sh$t, just enjoy what they're trying to do. The more I "really" listen to it, the more I like it. Lot's of studio tricks - deep, rich, full of sound.
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Apr 5, 2018This album's the made in the type of music they wanted to make, that's all I really want to say.
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Mar 16, 2019Favorites: Alien Days, Cool Song No. 2, Mystery Disease, Introspection, Your Life Is a Lie, Plenty of Girls in the Sea, An Orphan of Fortune
Awards & Rankings
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014These ever-changing moods don't make MGMT an easy listen. [Oct 2013, p.105]
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Nov 7, 2013MGMT's still reacting to the mainstream triumph of 2008's Oracular Spectacular, trying too hard to sound genuinely weird, as if determined to fail at any cost.
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MagnetOct 18, 2013The cosmic expanses of "I Love You Too, Death" and "Astro-Mancy" are particularly engrossing, but this record boasts more than enough quality head trips to keep you in it pull 'til the next go-round. [No. 103, p.57]