Oracular Spectacular

Greg Calbi mastered it. VanWyngarden plays vocals, guitars, synths, bass, drums and percussion and Goldwasser vocals, keyboards, sampling and rhythm guitar, with Fridmann producing and playing a Thingamagoop on "Time to Pretend". Singles were "Time to Pretend" (March 3, 2008), "Electric Feel" (June 23, 2008) and "Kids" (October 13, 2008). It is 2x Platinum in the US and UK. Metacritic scores it 76, NME gave 8 of 10, and AllMusic's Jason Lymangrover called it some of the catchiest pop songs to come from New York since the turn of the millennium. Rolling Stone ranked it 18th among the albums of the 2000s, and 494th on its 2012 list.