★★★★★
Second single from the new album Love Letters (BEC 5161673) including a remix by Jacques Lu Cont . Includes mp3 download code.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2014-06-03
★★★★★
2014 repress. Metronomy present their third album The English Riviera . The follow up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Nights Out , The English Riviera is a sonic progression of epic proportions and affirms Metronomy front man and producer, Joseph Mount , as a rare British talent. Since Nights Out , the band have swollen to a four-piece with new members Anna Prior on drums, Gbenga Adelekan on bass, original member Oscar Cash on keys/sax, and Joe himself on vocals, keys and guitar...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2014-05-28
★★★★★
Available on: Because Music Look, I know I go on about this, but why isn't there a name for this? I keep trying to say "indietronica", after all, it's indie bands with electronic instruments, but nobody seems interested. It's not that I want to tag or stake a claim to anything, it just seems quite odd that a whole broad section of modern music doesn't have a descriptor...
- www.factmag.com
2014-04-18
★★★★★
Available on: Because Music Look, I know I go on about this, but why isn't there a name for this? I keep trying to say "indietronica", after all, it's indie bands with electronic instruments, but nobody seems interested. It's not that I want to tag or stake a claim to anything, it just seems quite odd that a whole broad section of modern music doesn't have a descriptor...
- www.factmag.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
Joseph Mount and co head to Toe Rag for analogue experiment and mild anxiety... On their last album, The English Riviera, which sold quarter of a million copies and was nominated for the Mercury prize, Metronomy seemed to have finally tied down their eccentric English songwriting. Their first record fussed its way around scuzzy rock, videogame brightness and electroclash sleaze, while 2008's Nights Out still had an air of mania even as the hooks got stronger...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-04-12
★★★★★
On The English Riviera and Nights Out, Joe Mount, the main creative force behind Metronomy, seemed to be working to a specific purpose: transforming what indie rock could be by bathing it in the glamour of disco, '80s synth pop and contemporary R&B. Mount is a diligent student of songcraft in the brainy, British tradition of Prefab Sprout or Scritti Politti, and his best tracks, such as "Heartbreaker" and "The Bay," were indie-dance classics, at once euphoric and melancholic...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-03-21
★★★★★
On The English Riviera and Nights Out, Joe Mount, the main creative force behind Metronomy, seemed to be working to a specific purpose: transforming what indie rock could be by bathing it in the glamour of disco, '80s synth pop and contemporary R&B. Mount is a diligent student of songcraft in the brainy, British tradition of Prefab Sprout or Scritti Politti, and his best tracks, such as "Heartbreaker" and "The Bay," were indie-dance classics, at once euphoric and melancholic...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-03-21
★★★★★
"I'm back out on the Riviera", Joseph Mount sings on "The Upsetter", the first track on Metronomy's new album, Love Letters. The line is, of course, a coy reference to The English Riviera, Metronomy's breakthrough 2011 album. It is also a bit of chicanery, because Love Letters is actually quite a departure from its predecessor. After such a critical and commercial corner has been turned, a band must decide what to do next. Usually, that results in one of two general outcomes...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-19
★★★★★
could be held up a shining example of how bands can still evolve and grow in the internet age. Joe Mount's project went from an instrumental electronic bedroom project to the silver-selling, Mercury-nominated, Brixton Academy-selling out . All of this leaves perfectly poised to continue that upward trajectory and leave Mount dining at the top table of British music. The premise of the album is simple and resonant. isn't the first album to describe the woes of being in love while away on tour...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-03-18