4
Apr
2010
Music Review: Metronomy
I'm back on the motorway, again.
The opening of Metronomy album: “Nights Out” starts like an underwater Western. Brass, drums and strings bubble and reverberate through water with a Cowboy making leaden steps along a dirt road.
Track 2 breaks into what you can expect for the remainder of the album – a pleasant cacophony of semi-electronic beats with disembodied vocals strengthened by the Cowboy instruments from the dramatic introduction.
Singing about “going out and having a crap time” the lyrics bring a strangely bitter edge to the album.
Stand outs:
- The End of You Too
- My Heart Rate Rapid
- On the Motorway