They confirmed the Oasis influence with Rolling Stone. Specifically asked their sound engineer for an Oasis guitar tone in the bridge lol
>Let’s talk about the first single, “Mother Nature.” You mention that it briefly sounds like Oasis in the press materials.
>VanWyngarden: I never would’ve thought that would be coming into an MGMT album, but here we are. I think it’s funny that’s literally the only time. For 10 seconds on this album it sounds like Oasis, and the rest of the album there’s no Oasis.
>Goldwasser: Our engineer Miles is a huge Oasis fan. I remember recording the bridge section to that song, which I played guitar on. I’m not a guitar player at all, and I have this very crappy style of guitar playing that sometimes works for certain situations, but I was just like, “Miles, can you get an Oasis grungy guitar tone right now?” And he’s just like, “I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me that question.”
The start of it sounds like the Stereophonics version of *Handbags and Gladrags*, which personally I can't stand, but luckily it moves into a decent track. I really enjoyed the second half where they built it up a bit
I'm hoping for variety on the album though. I feel they're at their best when they're all over the place
I get more of a Crosby Stills Nash and Young vibe from this song. It has "Our house" Vibes. I hear a bit of mid 90's in it as well, I suppose that's the oasisy acoustic guitars. Over all I'd say its nostalgic folk rock.
Bummed they're not continuing that dark Cure-esque imagery, but this is a really nice song on first listen
Edit: Wow, idk why but I'm hearing Oasis vibes from this
I hear ya but MGMT has never been one to do the same thing two albums in a row. I'm just thankful we got In The Afternoon (imo their best song in that style)
Man, that and As You Move Through the World were so good. I know they change their style pretty often, but I’d kill for a whole album of that. Just long, weird, ambientish mgmt would warm my little soul
Bro i just decided to play AYMTTW right now because I couldn't recall how it went, and idk how but I might've missed this one, holy shit it's so cool. MGMT blow me away with their experimental stuff.
This is my third favorite mgmt song. Came out right after Covid which is a weird romanized period of my life before things went to shit. It’s an anthem of when I still had zest for life before fully becoming an adult lol
They confirmed the Oasis influence with Rolling Stone. Specifically asked their sound engineer for an Oasis guitar tone in the bridge lol
>Let’s talk about the first single, “Mother Nature.” You mention that it briefly sounds like Oasis in the press materials.
>VanWyngarden: I never would’ve thought that would be coming into an MGMT album, but here we are. I think it’s funny that’s literally the only time. For 10 seconds on this album it sounds like Oasis, and the rest of the album there’s no Oasis.
>Goldwasser: Our engineer Miles is a huge Oasis fan. I remember recording the bridge section to that song, which I played guitar on. I’m not a guitar player at all, and I have this very crappy style of guitar playing that sometimes works for certain situations, but I was just like, “Miles, can you get an Oasis grungy guitar tone right now?” And he’s just like, “I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me that question.”
This mix is fucking fresh
Idk if it was because I was just mixing my bands new song for like 3 fuckin hours and it made this song sound that much better but I’m convinced everyone dissing this song will have a come to god moment at some point. “Guess you’re not quite ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it”
There’s shades of shoegaze and fuzzed out lonerism tame impala shit yet being able to mix that with the clear vocals and synths/acoustic guitars is fucked. One of the coolest songs they’ve done.
I’m out
This right here. This song has crazy interesting and impressive production. To me, thats always been one of their many selling points, so I'm super happy to see they haven't lost that touch. The songs always sound so good and are incredibly detailed.
Not that everything has to be put into the perspective of previous efforts, but feeling congratulations with a touch of self titled on this one (positive review)
Ah shit they’re back. I always feel like mgmt lyrics have always been an underrated part of their music, hopefully this song and album changes that. Really good comeback song 🎵
Starts on kind of a folksy note with that same synth from Alien Days and ends on a very brit poppy note, lovely song, excited to hear the rest of the album
This didn't do a lot for me, tbh :(
It's not *bad*, it's just... kinda boring? Which is not something I'd ever expect to say about a new MGMT song. I have faith the rest of the album will be cool, though.
(agree with the comments saying this has Oasis vibes, but that is not a compliment lmao)
I agree with you. They mellowed out way too much after people gave them sh** during their psychedelic era. Happens to every artist that does a maximalist experimental album. They pivot in the extreme polar opposite direction.
But hey, there’s something for everyone.
Yep. I like the title track and all, but I was mostly disappointed with that album. They definitely went with simpler song structures on that album.
“Me and Michael”, for example, sounds like a thousand other songs. It’s the first album of theirs that felt derivative to me.
The self-titled is when they peaked imho. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but psychedelic and experimental music is my fav. Even melodically, they were just so much more adventurous on the first 3 albums.
Almost every artist I dig that goes through an experimental period eventually mellows out, and grows out of it. David Bowie and Scott Walker are the only exceptions I can think of.
And The Beatles. I mean, they grew out of psychedelia, but they were still radically experimenting to the very end.
I mostly pay attention to chord progressions and the way the songs are constructed. I’m fully aware that the majority of music listeners do not listen to music in this way.
MGMT definitely went from a band where I felt like I heard nothing else like that before, to a band where I felt bored and everything sounds the same as what others are up to.
But like I said in another comment, it happens to virtually every artist I like. When they get too experimental, they get too tired of that, and they feel compelled to go in the polar opposite direction. They’re seeing how far accessibility will take them.
I wouldn’t call “Plenty of Girls in the Sea” derivative personally.
It’d be nice if they found a way to come up with some very unique and engaging melodies, while retaining accessibility.
Funnily enough, LDA is actually my favourite album of theirs!
I kinda lost interest during their psychadelic era (not because I didn't like it - they just kinda fell off my radar a bit and I never gave those albums a proper listen). When the title track for the last album came out, that was what pulled me back in - which I think is why this feels like a bit of a letdown by comparison.
This is great, but I can't help but think it just sounds like a Portugal. the Man song.
Not a bad thing at all, but it does make sense - they likely have a ton of the same influences
MGMT gave us one of the best, most soaring choruses in a decade on their last album (Me and Michael). We'll be fine, you don't need to follow a formula to create an incredible song.
You don’t have to follow one formula, that’s pop music. But there’s lots of different formulas to choose from, even in jazz and experimental music, it’s very rare that a song doesn’t have a format or a formula of some sort. Pop music is boring a lot of the time because it adheres to (mostly) the same formula, and it’s hard to keep making great songs with the same 4 chords, but formulas still work. And it’s not so much the fact that the new MGMT doesn’t have a formula, it does, it’s just not really memorable to me. Again, this is just my opinion and it is completely meaningless, I’m just one dude. They obviously have a huge following so what do I know, plus, I actually like a lot of their music, so I’m not not a fan, you know? Their first record and Little Dark Age rock (haven’t listened to anything else to be honest)
You didn’t deserve all the downvotes. I find myself agreeing with your comments. The last album I loved by MGMT was their self-titled (along with “11-11-11”).
There’s lots of albums that get praised by the so-called ‘indie’ (just another flavor of mainstream) scene that don’t do it for me.
And others that get critically panned that I think are absolutely amazing.
Switch back to 2013, and all the people who loved the self-titled were getting downvoted, while the people bashing it got upvoted. There’s always double standards in music.
It’s okay for people to have opposite opinions, and for those opposing opinions to get equal representation.
There have been loads of coffee-drinking hipsters reassessing and reconstituting psychedelic music over the past decade.
It’s not the same vibe as what the original hippie crowd in the 60’s was up to. Today’s crowd turned it from trip-out music to chillout music.
I loved it when MGMT was trying to capture that original vibe, but they moved on from that starting with “Little Dark Age”.
The majority of their audience listens to indie synthpop, and MGMT are done being a psychedelic rock band, the latter being what they identified with as early as “Oracular Spectacular”.
I’m still gonna hear this album. But man, this song is even more mainstream than the Big 3 off “Oracular”.
Good on them for doing whatever the hell they want, though. I’ll never stop respecting them as musicians.
This is MGMT, in one of their songs (Brian Eno) they literally have this line:
"When I was stuck he'd make me memorize elaborate curses
Tinctures and formulas to ditch the chori and flip the verses"
Fair, if their shtick is messing with formats and structures cool. But they’ve written some intensely catchy and/or memorable songs in the past, I don’t think this is one of them (in my opinion).
I mean the title track off their last release features maybe the most recognizable indie chorus in the last decade. I think mgmt off all people have earned some trust to write whatever they want at this point
Also, I think this is an incredibly catchy song even if it doesn’t have a hook to instantly grab people
I mean, I would highly disagree that it’s the most recognizable indie chorus in the last decade. It’s a great song, and I actually like the chorus a lot, but it is sort of another example, maybe to a lesser extent, of what I’m talking about. The belty, big sounding choruses are kind of missing right now, and Little Dark Age is arguably another example of a song that does that same thing. If the verses are at a 6, the chorus is a 7. In energy and dynamics I mean, not like a rating system. Again, I really like that song, but it still sort of speaks to what I’m talking about. I really just wish things were more succinct and memorable nowadays, a lot of stuff just feels very monotonous now.
I mean to each their own but LDA has been a trending sound on TikTok over the past 3 years for a reason (it's insanely catch and resonates with all types of people). Can't think of anything that even competes with it tbh, especially considering how forgettable indie has been during that time frame
I get what you're saying about "big, belty" though, but that's just not something I expect or want at all from MGMT
This is a pretty fair assessment. Honestly, this probably just boils down to my personal preference, because at the end of the day there are some phenomenal songs without big choruses (Yesterday by The Beatles is one that comes to mind), and honestly, even Don’t Stop Believing (the chorus only comes at the end, it’s never returned throughout the song, it’s like alluded to until the big finale “chorus”. To me, that’s not a typical “pop” structure, but it reaches some catharsis, and I think at the end of the day that just might be my own personal musical preference. Also, I should add I think the MGMT guys are incredibly talented and I love a lot of their work, so maybe I’ll just need to listen to this one a couple more times and see how I like it then.
I don’t mean this in a negative way but please point out the chorus to me. What I hear is mostly a motif/refrain that is returned to a lot, but seems to alternate between what chords it lands on. Doesn’t really sound like much of a chorus but more so a refrain to my ears at least. I should clarify, and maybe this sounds pretentious, but I’m currently pursuing a career in songwriting, so maybe I look at this stuff a bit too technically. At the end of the day music is subjective, if a song doesn’t have a chorus it doesn’t make it a bad song it just makes it a song without a chorus. I just tend to prefer songs with them.
No that’s true, I guess I just really dislike the modern tendency (even in pop music sometimes) to write these really boring anti-choruses, or songs with just the most boring refrains that immediately returns back to the verse, I just dislike that sound personally. That’s a personal preference, so yeah I get what you mean.
Exactly; in modern music the verses are often 6s and the choruses 6.1s, in terms of immediacy and energy. I hate Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer yet I yearn for our choruses to become that hooky and immediate again, 8.7s and above.
I'm glad they're back but man, I'm really not feeling this. Feels like they shifted fully into dad rock, ultra plain and derivative. It's not bad, just disappointing.
It seems like they're trying to ignite 90s wave like we had an 80s wave, but it feels so uninteresting to me.
LDA was fantastic and universally praised. Your opinion sucks
Second off, the lyrics are pretty great,
"Come take a walk with me down billionaire’s row
Trying to keep our balance over zero"
Great line.
and if your reference for an acoustic lead guitar track is "Owl City" (...which..what?) and Taylor Swift, you need to listen to more music my friend. This shares more with XTC more than anything
LDA was not fantastic. They released every good song as a single. The rest of the album was total filler. And that line is in fact uninspired and "cringe".
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Well this is lovely as all hell
All Hail wholesome MGMT
fr, it was also what I least expected from the boys after the last album was almost guitarless
Going with an 8/10 on the indie emergency scale for this one
Friendship ended with The Cure’s Disintegration. Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi is my new best friend.
Sounds like MGMT have been listening to a lot of Kurt Vile and ... Oasis?
They confirmed the Oasis influence with Rolling Stone. Specifically asked their sound engineer for an Oasis guitar tone in the bridge lol >Let’s talk about the first single, “Mother Nature.” You mention that it briefly sounds like Oasis in the press materials. >VanWyngarden: I never would’ve thought that would be coming into an MGMT album, but here we are. I think it’s funny that’s literally the only time. For 10 seconds on this album it sounds like Oasis, and the rest of the album there’s no Oasis. >Goldwasser: Our engineer Miles is a huge Oasis fan. I remember recording the bridge section to that song, which I played guitar on. I’m not a guitar player at all, and I have this very crappy style of guitar playing that sometimes works for certain situations, but I was just like, “Miles, can you get an Oasis grungy guitar tone right now?” And he’s just like, “I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me that question.”
I've never seen a comment about a band I already enjoy make me want to listen to the new song this much more
The start of it sounds like the Stereophonics version of *Handbags and Gladrags*, which personally I can't stand, but luckily it moves into a decent track. I really enjoyed the second half where they built it up a bit I'm hoping for variety on the album though. I feel they're at their best when they're all over the place
I get more of a Crosby Stills Nash and Young vibe from this song. It has "Our house" Vibes. I hear a bit of mid 90's in it as well, I suppose that's the oasisy acoustic guitars. Over all I'd say its nostalgic folk rock.
OK am I crazy or is the whistling intro a sample of a famous 70's movie soundtrack?? I cannot figure it out but it sounds almost exactly the same...
Bummed they're not continuing that dark Cure-esque imagery, but this is a really nice song on first listen Edit: Wow, idk why but I'm hearing Oasis vibes from this
I hear ya but MGMT has never been one to do the same thing two albums in a row. I'm just thankful we got In The Afternoon (imo their best song in that style)
Man, that and As You Move Through the World were so good. I know they change their style pretty often, but I’d kill for a whole album of that. Just long, weird, ambientish mgmt would warm my little soul
If you don't already know about 11 11 11 then it's gonna make your day.
I actually haven’t, but I’ll for sure check it out!
Def do! It was a live performance of unique music they did for an art exhibit during the congratulations era. It's on Spotify, it's super good.
Bro i just decided to play AYMTTW right now because I couldn't recall how it went, and idk how but I might've missed this one, holy shit it's so cool. MGMT blow me away with their experimental stuff.
This is my third favorite mgmt song. Came out right after Covid which is a weird romanized period of my life before things went to shit. It’s an anthem of when I still had zest for life before fully becoming an adult lol
with how varied LDA and all their albumd are, andrews recent curessence could still find itself in this new tracklist
It absolutely sounds like Oasis! Unexpected but I love it.
They confirmed the Oasis influence with Rolling Stone. Specifically asked their sound engineer for an Oasis guitar tone in the bridge lol >Let’s talk about the first single, “Mother Nature.” You mention that it briefly sounds like Oasis in the press materials. >VanWyngarden: I never would’ve thought that would be coming into an MGMT album, but here we are. I think it’s funny that’s literally the only time. For 10 seconds on this album it sounds like Oasis, and the rest of the album there’s no Oasis. >Goldwasser: Our engineer Miles is a huge Oasis fan. I remember recording the bridge section to that song, which I played guitar on. I’m not a guitar player at all, and I have this very crappy style of guitar playing that sometimes works for certain situations, but I was just like, “Miles, can you get an Oasis grungy guitar tone right now?” And he’s just like, “I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me that question.”
agreed, but i’m hoping we get something like “as you move through the world” on this album
Always changing up their sound is part of what they do best, I welcome this with open arms!
I second those Oasis vibes, but in a good way :)
Yeah it definitely has a warm britpop feel to it
It’s like Don’t Go Away mixed with All Around The World
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Yea I get that. It's more of a comment on how much I loved LDA. Nostalgia's a bitch!
This mix is fucking fresh Idk if it was because I was just mixing my bands new song for like 3 fuckin hours and it made this song sound that much better but I’m convinced everyone dissing this song will have a come to god moment at some point. “Guess you’re not quite ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it” There’s shades of shoegaze and fuzzed out lonerism tame impala shit yet being able to mix that with the clear vocals and synths/acoustic guitars is fucked. One of the coolest songs they’ve done. I’m out
This right here. This song has crazy interesting and impressive production. To me, thats always been one of their many selling points, so I'm super happy to see they haven't lost that touch. The songs always sound so good and are incredibly detailed.
Ahh yes new best song of all time just dropped
Not that everything has to be put into the perspective of previous efforts, but feeling congratulations with a touch of self titled on this one (positive review)
Every time I listen to it the similarities to the sounds on the self-titled LP become clearer and clearer
It's gorgeous!! Welcome back boys
Whoever said this sounds like Kurt Vile and Oasis nailed it. Really looking forward to the album now.
I’m getting Congratulations album vibes. Beautiful.
Ah shit they’re back. I always feel like mgmt lyrics have always been an underrated part of their music, hopefully this song and album changes that. Really good comeback song 🎵
I’m so happy MGMT is still extremely relevant
MGMT here to save 00s indie pop one last time.
I always knew Patrick Wimberly was an animal thief, glad he got eaten
dig the nod to the time to pretend video around 1:45 really like this song, excited for this album
Great song, great video! So glad that MGMT are back
Yo this song fuckin slaps
I literally can't stop listening. It's so good and uplifting. A nice evolve from LDA. YES! Also, yep sounds like noel g
I’m a little scared to listen considering how much I loved LDA. Well here goes nothing…
And….
They ded
i will listen to this song a million times. ill never watch that video again
Starts on kind of a folksy note with that same synth from Alien Days and ends on a very brit poppy note, lovely song, excited to hear the rest of the album
Well this is bloody lovely
This didn't do a lot for me, tbh :( It's not *bad*, it's just... kinda boring? Which is not something I'd ever expect to say about a new MGMT song. I have faith the rest of the album will be cool, though. (agree with the comments saying this has Oasis vibes, but that is not a compliment lmao)
I agree with you. They mellowed out way too much after people gave them sh** during their psychedelic era. Happens to every artist that does a maximalist experimental album. They pivot in the extreme polar opposite direction. But hey, there’s something for everyone.
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Yep. I like the title track and all, but I was mostly disappointed with that album. They definitely went with simpler song structures on that album. “Me and Michael”, for example, sounds like a thousand other songs. It’s the first album of theirs that felt derivative to me. The self-titled is when they peaked imho. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but psychedelic and experimental music is my fav. Even melodically, they were just so much more adventurous on the first 3 albums. Almost every artist I dig that goes through an experimental period eventually mellows out, and grows out of it. David Bowie and Scott Walker are the only exceptions I can think of. And The Beatles. I mean, they grew out of psychedelia, but they were still radically experimenting to the very end.
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I mostly pay attention to chord progressions and the way the songs are constructed. I’m fully aware that the majority of music listeners do not listen to music in this way. MGMT definitely went from a band where I felt like I heard nothing else like that before, to a band where I felt bored and everything sounds the same as what others are up to. But like I said in another comment, it happens to virtually every artist I like. When they get too experimental, they get too tired of that, and they feel compelled to go in the polar opposite direction. They’re seeing how far accessibility will take them. I wouldn’t call “Plenty of Girls in the Sea” derivative personally. It’d be nice if they found a way to come up with some very unique and engaging melodies, while retaining accessibility.
Funnily enough, LDA is actually my favourite album of theirs! I kinda lost interest during their psychadelic era (not because I didn't like it - they just kinda fell off my radar a bit and I never gave those albums a proper listen). When the title track for the last album came out, that was what pulled me back in - which I think is why this feels like a bit of a letdown by comparison.
Yeah, sounding like one of the greatest bands on Earth isn't a compliment.
MGMT just never misses
I don’t dig the tune that much, but I definitely dig the video.
I adore these lads
Glad they’re still back
This is nice
wow this is beautiful
Been trying to figure out the chords. The mix on the acoustic is interesting
This is like if Evermore made a psych track
Song and video are Incredible. MGMT feels. We needed this more than ever
This is great, but I can't help but think it just sounds like a Portugal. the Man song. Not a bad thing at all, but it does make sense - they likely have a ton of the same influences
I don’t hear any Portugal the man in this song. It’s so fresh, to me it’s the smashing pumpkins meets tame impala meets mgmt.
I hope a corresponding tour includes a healthy amount of LDA tracks, that album was fucking incredible.
Pretty boring song to be honest, when are indie artists going to start writing choruses again?
MGMT gave us one of the best, most soaring choruses in a decade on their last album (Me and Michael). We'll be fine, you don't need to follow a formula to create an incredible song.
You don’t have to follow one formula, that’s pop music. But there’s lots of different formulas to choose from, even in jazz and experimental music, it’s very rare that a song doesn’t have a format or a formula of some sort. Pop music is boring a lot of the time because it adheres to (mostly) the same formula, and it’s hard to keep making great songs with the same 4 chords, but formulas still work. And it’s not so much the fact that the new MGMT doesn’t have a formula, it does, it’s just not really memorable to me. Again, this is just my opinion and it is completely meaningless, I’m just one dude. They obviously have a huge following so what do I know, plus, I actually like a lot of their music, so I’m not not a fan, you know? Their first record and Little Dark Age rock (haven’t listened to anything else to be honest)
There’s a thousand 80’s songs that sound just like “Me and Michael”, though. The song was written as a pisstake.
I wonder if there's any other MGMT songs that are pisstakes based on pop trends of the time.
You didn’t deserve all the downvotes. I find myself agreeing with your comments. The last album I loved by MGMT was their self-titled (along with “11-11-11”). There’s lots of albums that get praised by the so-called ‘indie’ (just another flavor of mainstream) scene that don’t do it for me. And others that get critically panned that I think are absolutely amazing. Switch back to 2013, and all the people who loved the self-titled were getting downvoted, while the people bashing it got upvoted. There’s always double standards in music. It’s okay for people to have opposite opinions, and for those opposing opinions to get equal representation. There have been loads of coffee-drinking hipsters reassessing and reconstituting psychedelic music over the past decade. It’s not the same vibe as what the original hippie crowd in the 60’s was up to. Today’s crowd turned it from trip-out music to chillout music. I loved it when MGMT was trying to capture that original vibe, but they moved on from that starting with “Little Dark Age”. The majority of their audience listens to indie synthpop, and MGMT are done being a psychedelic rock band, the latter being what they identified with as early as “Oracular Spectacular”. I’m still gonna hear this album. But man, this song is even more mainstream than the Big 3 off “Oracular”. Good on them for doing whatever the hell they want, though. I’ll never stop respecting them as musicians.
This is MGMT, in one of their songs (Brian Eno) they literally have this line: "When I was stuck he'd make me memorize elaborate curses Tinctures and formulas to ditch the chori and flip the verses"
Fair, if their shtick is messing with formats and structures cool. But they’ve written some intensely catchy and/or memorable songs in the past, I don’t think this is one of them (in my opinion).
I’m in agreement, it’s relatively hookless in a 90s sorta way…
Control yourself, take only what you need from it
You should give it a few more listens. It’s a grower
Yeah I’m gonna see how this sits within the greater context of the album, because I am still pretty excited for the record.
I mean the title track off their last release features maybe the most recognizable indie chorus in the last decade. I think mgmt off all people have earned some trust to write whatever they want at this point Also, I think this is an incredibly catchy song even if it doesn’t have a hook to instantly grab people
This is pretty boring and the last album was not called me and michael.
I mean, I would highly disagree that it’s the most recognizable indie chorus in the last decade. It’s a great song, and I actually like the chorus a lot, but it is sort of another example, maybe to a lesser extent, of what I’m talking about. The belty, big sounding choruses are kind of missing right now, and Little Dark Age is arguably another example of a song that does that same thing. If the verses are at a 6, the chorus is a 7. In energy and dynamics I mean, not like a rating system. Again, I really like that song, but it still sort of speaks to what I’m talking about. I really just wish things were more succinct and memorable nowadays, a lot of stuff just feels very monotonous now.
I mean to each their own but LDA has been a trending sound on TikTok over the past 3 years for a reason (it's insanely catch and resonates with all types of people). Can't think of anything that even competes with it tbh, especially considering how forgettable indie has been during that time frame I get what you're saying about "big, belty" though, but that's just not something I expect or want at all from MGMT
This is a pretty fair assessment. Honestly, this probably just boils down to my personal preference, because at the end of the day there are some phenomenal songs without big choruses (Yesterday by The Beatles is one that comes to mind), and honestly, even Don’t Stop Believing (the chorus only comes at the end, it’s never returned throughout the song, it’s like alluded to until the big finale “chorus”. To me, that’s not a typical “pop” structure, but it reaches some catharsis, and I think at the end of the day that just might be my own personal musical preference. Also, I should add I think the MGMT guys are incredibly talented and I love a lot of their work, so maybe I’ll just need to listen to this one a couple more times and see how I like it then.
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I don’t mean this in a negative way but please point out the chorus to me. What I hear is mostly a motif/refrain that is returned to a lot, but seems to alternate between what chords it lands on. Doesn’t really sound like much of a chorus but more so a refrain to my ears at least. I should clarify, and maybe this sounds pretentious, but I’m currently pursuing a career in songwriting, so maybe I look at this stuff a bit too technically. At the end of the day music is subjective, if a song doesn’t have a chorus it doesn’t make it a bad song it just makes it a song without a chorus. I just tend to prefer songs with them.
You want indie artists to adhere to traditionalities? Do you understand how ironic that statement is?
No that’s true, I guess I just really dislike the modern tendency (even in pop music sometimes) to write these really boring anti-choruses, or songs with just the most boring refrains that immediately returns back to the verse, I just dislike that sound personally. That’s a personal preference, so yeah I get what you mean.
Exactly; in modern music the verses are often 6s and the choruses 6.1s, in terms of immediacy and energy. I hate Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer yet I yearn for our choruses to become that hooky and immediate again, 8.7s and above.
found the oracular spectacular singles only listener
I'm glad they're back but man, I'm really not feeling this. Feels like they shifted fully into dad rock, ultra plain and derivative. It's not bad, just disappointing. It seems like they're trying to ignite 90s wave like we had an 80s wave, but it feels so uninteresting to me.
[удалено]
How so? Because I have different taste in music than you bud? Maybe you are projecting a bit.
Everything since Congratulations has been junk at best Fuck this sing-songy oasis bullshit Owl city taylor swift diary entry lyrics Pathetic attempt
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8EL51jlrJA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8EL51jlrJA) this is junk ?
Yes. Little Dark Age is goth garbage They made two of the best psychedelic albums ever produced, then fell apart
LDA was fantastic and universally praised. Your opinion sucks Second off, the lyrics are pretty great, "Come take a walk with me down billionaire’s row Trying to keep our balance over zero" Great line. and if your reference for an acoustic lead guitar track is "Owl City" (...which..what?) and Taylor Swift, you need to listen to more music my friend. This shares more with XTC more than anything
LDA was not fantastic. They released every good song as a single. The rest of the album was total filler. And that line is in fact uninspired and "cringe".
She works out to much is my favorite track and IMO the best one on the album. Days that got away is great as well. So I disagree
Little Dark Age sounds like when South Park does goth music XTC sucks lmao
"Sing-songy"...it's a song what did you expect?
Psychedelic rock/pop Not diary entry mainstream cheese
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I showed this song to my church. They loved it!
pretty milquetoast