Congratulations

Congratulations is the second studio album by the band MGMT. It features more of a psychedelic sound, unlike their previous album, Oracular Spectacular, which featured more of a synth-pop sound. Congratulations debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 66,000 copies sold in its first week. In the UK, it debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, selling 17,000 copies in its first week. The band recording the album for 2 1/2 years in February 2008 through January 2010 the band debuted date tracks on The Oracular Spectacular Tour Between January and June 2009
== Track listing ==
No.	Title 	Legnth
1 	It's Working 	4:06
2 	Song for Dan Treacy 	4:09
3 	Someone's Missing 	2:29
4 	Flash Delirium 	4:15
5 	I Found a Whistle 	3:40
6 	Siberian Breaks 	12:09
7 	Brian Eno 	4:31
8 	Lady Dada's Nightmare 	4:31
9 	CongratulationsSound and Vision (David Bowie cover)	3:55
iTunes Store pre-order bonus track
No.	Title 	Legnth
10 	Inbetween the Liners	6:35
Japanese re-release bonus tracks
No.	Title 	Legnth
10 	Flash Delirium (BBC Radio 1 Session)	4:16
11 	"Brian Eno" (BBC Radio 1 Session) 	4:29
12 	"It's Working" (BBC Radio 1 Session)	4:10
13 	"It's Working" (Air Remix) 	4:35
14 	"Brian Eno" (Cornelius Remix) 	4:20
15 	"Flash Delirium" (music video) 	4:23
16 	"It's Working" (music video) 	4:09
== Singles ==
In February 2008 the band begand the recording In January 2010, VanWyngarden said that they would prefer not to release any singles from the album. The band 
Goldwasser explained in an interview with NME, "We'd rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio – if anything gets played on the radio!" He also said, "There definitely isn't a 'Time to Pretend' or a 'Kids' on the album. We've been talking about ways to make sure people hear the album as an album in order and not just figure out what are the best three tracks, download those and not listen to the rest of it". February 27, 2008 to Mid 2010 the band all the songs from this album In October 2007 the group premiered their first album Oracular Spectacular On June 12, 2009 mgmt officially first discussed the albu. On March 8, 2008 whent he and was in Austin Texas for the SXSW festival 2008 the band played all the songs for the first time and the group discussed the new album In April 2010 On January 17, 2009 mgmt did recording demo album the album was smelled for 2010 before their 2013 album Mgmt (Album) On October 3, 2008 the group saying they are going to still play new song Elvis for their April 2010 album On October 5, 2008 just following 2 days later their next album In April 2010 is going to have a David Bowie song on it for their album tribute After the 2004-2007 working wetting recordings the band was still recording their 2nd album at their January 2009 shows on their Oracular Spectacular Tour On January 11, 2009 
Despite the band saying they won't release singles, Flash Delirium was made available as a free download on March 9, 2010.
Siberian Breaks and It's Working later got singles, and also the title track, Congratulations.
== Cover art ==
The band updated their artwork On January 4 2009 the first 2009 show In Africa during[[ Oracular Spectacular Tour]]The cover art was done by Anthony Ausgang. The artwork depicts an animal on a surfboard, surfing on a wave that is anthropomorphized as a cat about to devour the creature. The animal on the surfboard actually comes from another one of Ausgang's work from 1994.
== Critical reception ==
Congratulations received generally positive reviews from music critics. Though, some had mixed thoughts. Rolling Stone's Will Hermes said Congratulations to be "a hazy, hit-and-miss album that will likely alienate some fans of the debut, but one that also testifies to MGMT's restlessness as songwriters and human beings." Guardian critic Dave Simpson felt that Congratulations "isn't bad, just baffling".
== Gallery ==
On Spetmeber 16, 2008 the priemree gallery of their ejzxt album
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=== Promo art ===
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