Oracular Spectacular is the first major label studio album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock band MGMT, released digitally October 2, 2007 on Columbia Records, available in CD & LP formats from January 22, 2008.[2] The album features new versions of both "Kids" and "Time to Pretend", songs from their previous release, Time to Pretend EP (2005), the opening track serving as a "mission statement" and theme continued through the proceeding tracks. Pitchfork Media compared MGMT to Muse and Mew, but weaving in an early 90s Britpop sound.[3] Prefix Magazine said the album "sounds like a college-dorm experiment gone horribly right."[4]
It was named the best album of 2008 by NME. Wireless Bollinger ranked the album as #5 in its top 10 albums of 2008.[5]