Before: THEY WENT TO MY SCHOOL! THEY WENT TO MY SCHOOL! MGMT STARTED AT MY SCHOOL!!!!!!!!! (still haven't gotten over how proud I am of Wes..)
I've listened to this album before. That is, the songs in a mishmoshed shuffle. I'm looking forward to analyzing it a bit more by really thinking about what they're saying and the sounds they create.
After: Their lyrics are something else. They are interwoven with references and bits of language that remind me of an English major's poetry thesis. The supporting musical chords and electronic soundscape conjures up thick clouds of blue and cylinders of cucumber green. Most of it rolls past my capacity for true audible enjoyment, but the parts that stick, stick. In "Time to Pretend", that bubbling noise is very foreign to my listening history and sounds so good. "Kids", my other favorite track, combines complementary sounds and words that mix to create a real, whole song.
Listening to this album is like going diving in a fishbowl that has a mini Las Vegas in it. The neon lights are trying to outcompete one another; there's the feeling of being underwater; there's a glitzy kitsch to it that is real but fake.
In sum, MGMT is genius.
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I love that I don't understand a major percentage of this album. There's so much room for me to grow as a listener and analyzer!
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