Much like the album title suggests, Brooklyn-based MGMT’s debut full-length Oracular Spectacular is a vivid pronouncement of hopeless naïveté, thick with idealism and pulsing with blinding exasperation and daring, head-first bravado that is as rich as it is electric. For a project based on experimentation and rooted in avant-garde sentimentalism, Oracular Spectacular harrowingly runs the gamut from sadness and guilt to exhilaration and triumph in one charismatic swoop. An evident mutual love for classic pop and the electro-dance synth sounds emerging out of the New York art community cements MGMT as a strong and confident originator in a community rife with impersonators and phonies. Throughout the drug-addled journey, the duo of Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser traverse dynamic soundscapes of flittering electro-noise loops, bombastic melodies and weighted spontaneity that makes them the perfect heroes for a youth culture lost with wild and starry-eyes. (Red Ink/Columbia) –Matt Kiser