Now Let’s Have Some Fun

Brooklyn electro-rock trio and Wesleyan grads MGMT have been HotListed for big things in ‘08 by nearly every key music publication and head-phoned nerd with an iBook. Perhaps with good reason.

Despite their cute-ass, vowel hating name and the preciousness that birthed it, MGMT introduce their debut LP Oracular Spectacular with “Time to Pretend,” a remarkable, soaring, wide-screen anthem about reluctantly leaving behind the joys and pleasures of youth. A dirge of a song disguised in amped-up, digital psychedelia, “Pretend” details brilliantly the inevitable march toward maturity and the things to be left behind:

“I’ll miss the boredom, and the freedom and the time spent alone.”

The end result sounds like the Flaming Lips covering the Bangles “Manic Monday” and is pretty fantastic.

And I guarantee you, like the Lips’ “Do You Realize,” the song will be in at least a half-dozen commercials by year’s end.

Oracular Spectacular is out now. The trippy clip for “Time to Pretend” is here.

~ by agitpoptimist on February 27, 2008.