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MGMT

1 album cover in our archive

MGMT is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 1 album cover from the 2000s. Released on RED Ink / Columbia, the artwork sits in the pop, electronic tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering photography, band photo, portrait, logo, debut album, conceptual. Below you'll find the full story behind each MGMT cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT — album cover art

Oracular Spectacular (2007)

Two young men stand on a beach at dusk in feathers, war paint, and hot-pink shorts, a pale moon hanging between them. This is MGMT before the world caught on: a costume-shop fever dream shot during a music video, stamped with a logo Andrew VanWyngarden drew by hand.

Label
RED Ink / Columbia
Photographer
Sam Fleischner
Genre
Pop, Electronic
Decade
2000s
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