Metz live in Seattle, Nov 2021 (Wade Atkinson for Live4ever)
Metz were on the US west coast last month – check out Live4ever’s photo gallery.
Metz performed at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle on November 23rd during their co-headline tour of the US with Preoccupations, part of the live work behind last year’s Atlas Vending album:
“When a shark’s fin of newness appears, it’s hard to chase down however unless concentration is applied: the 97 seconds of No Ceiling revels in its pristine, truncated structure, a love song of sorts; ‘I found a second act, I’ll hold it tight/Awoke a burning heart in me/Whoa, the dawn is/It’s in your eyes’, a brief episode that needs to spit out its message like a cork flying out of a shaken-awake bottle,” our review reads.
“In former years, that sort of kinetic blast was what frequently sustained Metz, but the realisation that ultimately without finesse everything ends up with a shorter half-life has led them now to songs like Hail Taxi, a schizophrenic verse/chorus arrangement which under different ears might be something even close to the mainstream, depending just where you feel those particular cards might land.”
Photos for Live4ever by Wade Atkinson.
