With their upcoming second album, ‘Nights Out’, Metronomy have sure enough crafted a future electro-pop classic. The first single to be lifted from the LP is a flawless representation of some of the freakishly danceable tracks contained therein. A wholly original mashup of electronics, ‘My Heart Rate Rapid’ is sheer falsetto-laden, drum-battering brilliance.

 

Although Metronomy’s elliptical, insidious, multi-coloured art-pop sounds nothing like Cologne’s legendary purveyors of prog-disco, Can do offer clues to the lineage the band belong to. Add early Brian Eno, Sparks, Devo, Talking Heads, Soft Cell, and then scratch your head for more recent examples of abstract music, full of experiment, risk, and individuality…that somehow resolves itself into pop…that makes you sing and dance and feel like a big kid…and you realise that you can’t think of any because Metronomy are, in the current pop milieu, an utterly unique proposition.

 

‘Nights Out’, due for release in May, is a second album that feels like a debut. It’s the first Metronomy album for BECAUSE; the first to be vocal-led, with the self-effacing Joseph Mount (founder member and the band’s chief songwriter) stepping up and grabbing the mic for most of the tracks; and, crucially, the first to introduce Metronomy as a three-piece band, rather than a pseudonym for Joseph‘s solo work. Alas, so much to say, so little page space…MUCH more on the album (which is a substantial blinder) coming soon…

 

In the mean time, after completing a hardcore touring schedule just before Christmas - having toured more or less back-to-back with the likes of Kate Nash, CSS, Foals and Bloc Party - Metronomy are readying themselves for their first full headline tour in a little while. In the past year, the band’s live show has come to be something of a speciality, asserting them as a serious, seriously good, live band – with the helping hand of their occasional dance troupe and now trademark light show, and with an arsenal of electro-pop belters now at their fingertips, Metronomy’s game has most certainly been upped.