For an "accidental" band formed while principle players Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser were swapping musical ideas at Wesleyan University, MGMT has done thoroughly alright by itself. 

So strong, in fact, were the pair's initial forays into music-making together -- the indelible singles "Time To Pretend" and "Electric Feel" chief among them -- that they were alarmed to receive a call from Columbia Records inquiring if MGMT might be interested in a major-label deal maybe a little bit before the two friends had completely realized they were an actual band. They thought it was a joke. It was not. And the rest, as they say, is history. Oracular Spectacular is, in any case, a fairly ... well ... spectacular debut and has quietly sold upwards of three million copies worldwide since its release in October of 2007, while MGMT has gone on to carve out a curious, fairly uncompromising psych-y electro-pop niche all to itself on the fringes of the mainstream while not actually catering to the mainstream in any way. So job well done, really.

TRACKLISTING: 

1. Time To Pretend
2. Weekend Wars
3. The Youth
4. Electric Feel
5. Kids
6. 4th Dimensional Transition
7. Pieces Of What
8. Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
9. The Handshake
10. Future Reflections