MGMT Prog?

Now before you go off on me let me explain. Some of MGMT's work is fairly proggy in my opinion. In fact they are the band that really made me explore the prog genre (Found out about King Crimson through one of their band interviews). In particular songs like Siberian Breaks, Metanoia, Lady Dada's Nightmare. Now, I kind of consider them to be as close to prog as The Beatles (prog influences but not exactly prog). I'm just wondering what you guys think?

I own Oracular Spectacular and Congratulations. I don't hear anything prog according to the definition of the site. They are an intesteing modern version of synthpop that melds with neo-psychedelia and indietronica. I like their earliest stuff the best but they don't meet the criteria of being included on this site. Sorry

miamiscot wrote: Hey, if people insist on calling bands like Tame Impala or Temples Prog then why not MGMT? Love all three of their albums though (especially Congratulations. Any album with a song called "Brian Eno" can't be all bad!)

Tame Impala and Temples are generally referred to as psych pop. At least by fans of psych pop, prog fans say their music is prog. Same with the Flaming Lips. So, it seems to be up to a genre's fans as what music is produced by these bands. Now that seems fair, doesn't it?

Edited by SteveG - August 22 2017 at 05:57

Well I bought the album and it's a really enjoyable 44 minutes to say the least.
Owes more to the electro-pop than the fuzzy (But enchanting fuzzy) of their third album. And at parts sounds like a more Techno version of "Congratulations".
It's like they've never been away. The singles are stacked at the front of the album leaving the rest of the album to blossom.
Should be on Spotify at least and all I really ask is you listen to it twice as any doubts or contention you had goes away with repeated listening. Haha, who knew that happened, eh?

MGMT reminds me of Major Parkinson