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This time around we’re loving Metronomy's Nights Out album. Since the release of the first Metronomy album (the superlatively-titled Pip Paine Pay the £5000 You Owe), Metronomy has morphed from the work of one man (Joseph Mount) in his Bristol bedroom to the work of three men. Nights Out, their newly-released sophomore album, is endearingly wonky; the guitars sound a bit sea-sick, the drumming a bit like a door being shut repeatedly. Mount’s production nous is still at the forefront, though – with singles like ‘Heartbreaker’ and ‘My Heart Rate Rapid’, you can see why Mount is in demand by the likes of Roots Manuva and thecockandbullkid - both of whom he’s lent his production skills to recently.
From Drowned in Sound:
"The artwork itself is a giveaway. Beneath dark clouds a fluorescent night sky shimmers above a city’s sprawl. A sheep grazes. A scarf-wearing young man, uncanny in his resemblance to Mount, leans against a sleek saloon, hands tucked in pockets and gaze raised to the heavens. The imagery is perfectly resonant of Donnie Darko’s wholesale nostalgia through Teen Wolf, Back To The Future and other canonical films of the era itself. Heck – the cover’s right there, you don’t need me to describe it for you. Graceful, cinematic and wholly evocative, it's a sweet, apposite reflection of the musical contents lying within." Read on...