Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages this week is Metz‘s fourth studio album Atlas Vending – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the LP via Spotify.
“Metz have always been a bomb, but never one that went off.”
“The Canadian trio have spent more than a decade now exploring the post-hardcore landscape, their eponymous debut album reaching the public as far back as 2012, but vocalist Alex Edkins, bassist Chris Slorach and drummer Hayden Menzies have, as the press release for Atlas Vending acerbically notes, never allowed themselves to be, ‘Trapped within a format typically suspended in youth’.”
“Instead, Edkins is talking up their fourth album as their most creative, least definitive yet: ‘We’ve always been wary to not overthink or intellectualize the music we love but also not satisfied until we’ve accomplished something that pushes us forward’, he says, brandishing a record which gleefully swings from extreme to sublime and back again in a new/old Metz-like way.”
