Metronomy - Metronomy Forever review: Galactic love songs meet Berlin rave music

Ambitious: Metronomy frontman Joseph Mount
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Harriet Wolstenholme13 September 2019

From humble beginnings as a one-man act, Metronomy have come on in leaps and bounds since the days of founder Joseph Mount on his bedroom computer. Twenty years on and now a five-piece, they have now dropped their sixth record, Metronomy Forever.

It’s an ambitious, featuring an eclectic 17-track mix that lies somewhere between galactic love songs and Berlin rave music. True to their DIY premise, it retains an unpretentious charm. Lazy vocals that are basically spoken offset otherwise pretty polished indie-electro. It’s a highly sensory album, supported by Eighties-tinged synths and contrasted by twitchy electric guitars that leave you feeling a little paranoid.

Purely instrumental tracks scattered throughout offer an ambient escape from punchier, sweat-soaked tunes like Salted Caramel Ice Cream and Sex Emoji, where the band’s energy peaks with “Love, honey, sex, money” squeals.

Album highlight Walking in the Dark has a ghostly groove with an equally eerie music video featuring Mount in a raincoat. Watch it.

The listening experience is like one big synthy time-lapse, designed to replicate the infinite feeling of listening to the radio. It’s a sophisticated result, placing emphasis on the album as a whole rather than capitalising on the standalone single.

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