Congratulations - MGMT
  • Band Name: MGMT
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Apr 13, 2010
User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 138 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 138
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 138
  3. Negative: 13 out of 138

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  1. ChrisK.
    Apr 14, 2010
    3
    I can't think of a lousier sophomore album after an amazing debut since Fiona Apple. This follows in the footsteps of the latest releases by The Flaming Lips and Of Montreal. File under - "Too Many Drugs in the Studio" or "Drinking One's Own Kool-Aid".
  2. BertBert`brett.w
    Apr 15, 2010
    2
    This album blows! Congratulations is the only good track.
  3. iamanicon
    May 26, 2011
    0
    After such an amazing debut I was seriously disappointed with the dire, forgettable crap that followed.

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Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 39
  3. Negative: 1 out of 39
  1. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    58
    This airy prog-psych self-indulgence is merely an elaboration of the back half of that debut--the half I tuned out then but appreciate some now, because, even as self-indulgent elaborations go, the follow-up's a doozy.
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  2. Paste Magazine
    70
    Cowbells and organ chords set the frenetic pace for this crazed and eerie take on surf music that namechecks the godfather of ambient in its punkest track.
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  3. Trouser Press
    80
    MGMT's first long-player may have included catchier singles, but Congratulations is the better album, trading Oracular's deceptive superficiality for psychedelic grandeur. Of course, like all psychedelic things, that grandeur is pretty deceptive, too.
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