INSANELY popular psychodelic outfit MGMT found commerical success with the release of Oracular Spectacular, an album so full of inane guff it was on the cards fairweather listeners would lap it up.
But my was I surprised when I heard their new track Flash Delirium on Radio 6 the other week. It's a delicious, spacious, supersonic fantasy that's actually a charming listen.
What is hilarious is the amount of negative feedback it's received from Fearne Cotton-loving morons who'd much rather "slum" it out with the cast of Hollyoaks at V-Fest than try to listen to something that could take an ounce of effort to get into.
Case in point, no coincindence here (honest!): Listening to Fearne Cotton play Flash Delirium for the first time on her show the other day, a barrage of e-mails burst through the station's Outlook account with views such as "OH MY GOD, this is terrible! Why can't they make songs like Kids all the time?" and "Woah, what the hell has happened to MGMT? They suck now!".
It's called progression and I'm glad they've taken this direction. Hopefully they'll have a bit of fun playing live knowing audiences aren't there to hear Kids, Electric Feel or that other one about drugs and stuff.
I'm actually looking forward to their new album, Congratulations, due for release at some point this year on the back of this effort.
Congratualtions, MGMT, you've just made a new fan.
MGMT -- Flash Delirium
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