"Electric Feel" | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Single by MGMT | ||||||||
from the album Oracular Spectacular | ||||||||
Released | June 23, 2008 | |||||||
Format |
|
|||||||
Recorded | March – April 2007 | |||||||
Studio | Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York | |||||||
Genre | ||||||||
Length | 3:50 | |||||||
Label | Columbia | |||||||
Writer(s) | ||||||||
MGMT singles chronology | ||||||||
|
||||||||
|
"Electric Feel" is a song by the American rock band MGMT, released as the second single from their debut studio album Oracular Spectacular (2007) on June 23, 2008. The single was released as a 7" and CD single, and later on 12" vinyl. "Electric Feel" was released to radio on July 29, 2008. The song's second video features The Rock-afire Explosion. The song alternates between bars of 6/4 and bars of 4/4 musical bridges.
"Electric Feel" became MGMT's first Australian ARIA top 50 hit, their first Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles hit (at #14, so the song charted at #114 on the Billboard Hot 100) and their first New Zealand RIANZ top 40 hit. In the United States, the song originally peaked at #20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, but reached a new peak of #14 almost three years after the original peak, due to a resurgence in sales from exposure on The Voice. (The version of "Electric Feel" covered by The Voice contestant, Preston Pohl also debuted at #21 on the same week) The song was ranked at #5 on NME's list of the Best Singles of 2008, and came in at #2 on Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008.
Two videos have been released for this song.
The music video, which was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, is often described as an ecstasy or acid trip, while some argue it as being a depiction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Pitchfork Media described the video as "a krazy, kandy-kolored, loud neon thingamajig video"