ALBUM REVIEW: METRONOMY – SMALL WORLD

In 2011, Metronomy released ‘The English Riviera’ which stands as one of the 21st Century’s landmark albums, blending Joseph Mount’s earlier creative dance music with sophisticated pop in a loose concept album that reenvisaged Torquay as an elegant resort. Like Magnetic Fields after ’69 Love Songs’ or Sufjan Stevens with ‘Illinois’, the problem becomes how […]
bluedot has released the first wave of artists for this year with Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy headlining the fifth instalment of the award-winning music, science and culture event at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory taking place 23–26 July 2020. One of the most influential and ground-breaking musicians of all time, Björk’s festival exclusive set […]

BLUEDOT 2020 HEADLINERS ANNOUNCED…

LIVE: METRONOMY – 09/11/2019

-ACADEMY, MANCHESTER- Devonshire’s Metronomy have released a whopping six albums. One steady string running throughout is their eccentric, envelope-pushing electric pop. What has changed however is their relationship with music. Their latest release, Metronomy Forever, has hints of the previous decades, the colossal 17 tracker adding whole song instrumentals for good measure. Metronomy’s recent blurring of identity […]
– ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – Metronomy are a band that I’ve been slightly offhand with since their fourth album Love Letters; but, they’re in the Albert Hall tonight touring last year’s effort Summer ’08. The new album sees Metronomy take a more rhythmic, danceable, electronic route, a là LCD Soundsystem. Ironically, it’s since then they’ve […]

LIVE: METRONOMY – 17/05/2017

METRONOMY REVEAL NEW LIVE DATES INCLUDING MANCHESTER ALBERT HALL

Metronomy return to the live arena with seven brand new dates scheduled for May and July 2017.  The headline shows will take place across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, and London followed by festival appearances in Liverpool, Winchester, Huntingdon and Sheffield. Joe Mount will perform with the full band set up to include Oscar Cash (keys/sax), Gbenga Adelek an (bass), Anna Prior (drums) and Michael Lovett (keys/guitar). […]
Following their headline show at Manchester’s Gorilla last month, TELEMAN announce they will join Metronomy on the road in December, returning to play the Albert Hall in Manchester followed by dates in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany: DECEMBER Saturday 6th – Manchester (Albert Hall) Monday 8th – Utrecht (Tivoli Vredenburg Popzaal) Tuesday 9th – Brussels […]

TELEMAN REVEALED AS SUPPORT FOR METRONOMY

Live: Metronomy – 16/03/2014

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – If Metronomy’s primary lyrical concern is the closed-mindedness of the parochially trapped and entrapping, then music, their music, is the escape route. Even as the protagonists in songs like ‘The Look’ and ‘Corinne’ turn their woes over and over without resolution, the music tears off in a direction that is […]
It is a seldom seen occurrence when a band – over a period as long as the best part of a decade – achieves the critics’ holy grail that is a steady progression to mainstream success without sacrificing what was originally considered their original, signature sound. Even more of a surprise is when – somewhat […]

Album Review: Metronomy – Love Letters

LIVE: NME AWARDS TOUR 2012

– ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER – Sorry, but this is going to be a biased review. I miss Azealia Banks due to the ridiculous idea of scheduling the first act 10 minutes after doors opening. I’m obviously disappointed to find out from the light technician that I have missed the filthy talking Azealia, who has been […]
Metronomy are the electric pop band that’s had us humming their catchy as fuck tune, ‘The Look’ for the best part of 2011. Like a musical version of Monty Python’s ‘The Funniest Joke in the World’ (minus inevitable death), I double dares ya not to be belting out ‘da, da, da, da, da, da, da, […]

INTERVIEW: METRONOMY’S ANNA PRIOR