Who is MGMT? ORACULAR SPECTACULAR review!

I generally freakin hate hippies. I hate “dub” (and I live in Wellington, ah the misfortune), I hate dreadlocks, I hate like massive coloured beanies that enclose said dreadlocks urgh, everything is disgusting. Except, their mentalities. Chilling out and dreaming up Utopian visions of humanity is a pretty sweet lifestyle. So it’s hard to hate a band who’s front-men embody said visions but dress like they’re white-boy African hunters who stumbled across facepaint, felt-tips, that Window’s program ‘Paint’ and went creative crazy. The ‘Time to Pretend’ video clip is actually all I’ve ever wanted to see in a video – there’s babies, kittens, MGMT riding kittens, generic photoshop fill backgrounds beyond which stand illustrative monsters which explode into dolphins before one of the members rides a computer generated wave into the galaxy – but then you’ve probably seen this, because it’s on fairly high rotation everywhere at the moment. Oh, and they’re website http://www.whoismgmt.com/ is interactive (I swear you can type in anything). And they have an interactive videoclip. An interactive videoclip. So all the add-ons to music that go with the industry are there working super overtime, and doing an amazing job, and I’m one of those people that believe that a band’s a creative entity and everything they do as a band, including, but not exclusively their music, adds to their creative integrity. And Oracular Spectacular has the goods over every medium; including the music bit. 10 solid pop tracks that hark at the philosophy and musical undertones of The Doors but use current synthesized sounds on top of pretty standard but appropriate guitar/drums to achieve it. It’s a ‘70’s takeover by a duo who belong in 2050.