MGMT member Andrew Vanwyngarden wasn’t kidding last week when he said the duo’s new album is “definitely going to shock people.” While the cover of their debut Oracular Spectacular was hardly a masterpiece, the just-revealed artwork for sophomore album Congratulations (see it after the jump) is conjuring up memories of the days when we lugged around our, like, totally rad Trapper Keeper in fourth grade.
Woo-o-o-o-ooah—cowabunga, dude!
The cover was designed by Anthony Ausgang. “There’s a surfing thread throughout the record,” Vanwyngarden told Spin last week. “When you’re surfing, there’s a specific break you’re paddling to. And when the waves are really good you say, ‘It’s working.’ The song ["It's Working"] kind of has a surf-y vibe. It’s like surfing on ecstasy!”
Well, here’s our prediction: MGMT’s Congratulations is going to catch a gnarly wave and surf straight onto our next Worst Album Cover Art list at the end of the year. Bravo, boys!
Worst? U must be older than 32 or younger, cause that is a cool ass book cover i would have used in 5th grade. Pffffft. Worst, dude really? Cause it's not cool and it's their own idea, isn't that what we want artists to do weather we like their art or now? what kinda corporate mentally website do u guy's have, or is it still high school?
your different and i don't like it = 10 ten worst
your different and others like u but i do not = 10 ten worst
I like u = you're the best
is that like a mission statement u have to sign to be a part of the new idolator system?
The Warlocks used Ausgang's art for their debut Ep back in 2000:
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God this website sucks. Honestly you didn’t even bother to write anything that could be called an article, and the little bit that was written sounds like it came out of the notebook of some 20 year old hipster faggot that calls himself a journalist. Also this cover kicks ass, I don’t see why people give it shit. Oh wait that’s right, most of the people writing reviews are pop-robots with their heads so far up their asses they can seem to write about anything other than ke$ha or Justin Bieber. Fucking Christ….
I *wish* I was still a 20-year-old hipster faggot. Sigh.
Awful airbrushed “RAT FINK” style early ’90s eye rape from the hipster set. What else is one to expect?