Metronomy (Photo: Garret Torres for Live4ever)
Metronomy‘s new album ‘Summer 08’ has been confirmed for release on July 1st.
Frontman Joe Mount presented Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac with the lead single ‘Old Skool‘, featuring Mix Master Mike, yesterday evening (May 11th). It’s the first Metronomy album since 2014’s ‘Love Letters’, of which Live4ever’s review opens:
“In amongst all the critical and commercial bouquets that Metronomy‘s last album ‘The English Riviera‘ earned, (headlines: Mercury Nomination, more than 100,000 copies shifted) it became hard to remember the band had been a very much a cult proposition up until its 2011 release.”
“In the beginning, music under the name had been largely the work of frontman Joseph Mount, mostly too left field to swim with the late noughties tide of vintage synth-prodding haircuts.”
“This changed with ‘The English Riviera’ for a number of reasons, one of which being that Mount chose as his muse his bohemian Devon home town of Totnes, another that his subtle blend of British archetypes – Bowie, New Wave, add a dash of Eno period Roxy – were rounded out by the addition of band personnel who added necessary soul to the formerly anaemic concoction.”
