"Metanoia" is the special limited edition single release that was originally a b-side on MGMT

MGMT

MGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...

's debut CD single "Time to Pretend

Time to Pretend

-Reception:"Time to Pretend is a space-rock gem that mocks the clichéd coke-and-hookers rock-star lifestyle, over big synth whooshes." – Kevin O'Donnell, Rolling Stone...

". It was released August 18, 2008, available in 10" etched vinyl

Gramophone record

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"Metanoia" was named "Song of the Day" on September 16, 2008 by Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, describing it as a "14-minute opus, which ranges from Donovan

Donovan

Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

-ish acid ballads to interstellar synth-powered dirges to falsetto-laden theater rock."

Track listing

Charts

"Metanoia" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart in September 2008.

Psychology

• Psychologist Carl Jung
  Carl Jung
  Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...
  
   is the "mystic referee" referred to throughout the song. He is pictured wearing a referee's uniform on the title cover. Metanoia
  Metanoia (psychology)
  Metanoia in the psychological theory of Carl Jung denotes a process of reforming the psyche as a form of self healing, a proposed explanation for the phenomenon of psychotic breakdown...
  
   is also a psychoanalytic theory developed by Jung himself.

Religion

• Religious teacher Swami Satchidananda
  Swami Satchidananda
  Swami Satchidananda , born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West during his time in New York. He was the author of many philosophical and spiritual books, including a popular illustrative book on Hatha...
  
  is also referenced several times throughout the song's entirety.

External links

• Short review of 'Metanoia' on Critical Acclaim