Metronomy, Small but Mighty

Seventh album and "new cycle" for Metronomy, whose chief composer, Joseph Mount has confined himself to the English countryside since 2019 and Metronomy Forever. The new record from the English combo logically bears the seal of the pandemic, which has reduced the planet to a Small World. Small as the tracklisting, limited to nine tracks, compared to 17 on their previous album, which mixed pop rock, funk and house.

Here, Metronomy is stripped to its bare bones, little vignettes of simple, perky pop, except perhaps on the album's two supporting walls, Life and Death, from which a little melancholy oozes, and I Have Seen Enough, which could have been sung by Lou Reed. But in the meantime, the Englishmen praise joy and springtime through an orchestration as sober as it is bouncy, whether on the single It's good to be back, already destined to be a festival hit, Love Factory or Right on Time, to be listened to very loudly on the beach this summer.

There are also some in-between tracks, the lovely I lost my mind with its whistled solo in the middle, or Hold Me Tonight, featuring Dana Margolin, the singer of the up-and-coming Brighton band, Porridge Radio. Just the album we needed to start a year finally free of Covid?

Lets go back to 2014 when Qobuz met with Joseph Mount of Metronomy for the release of the album Love Letters. Séance de rattrapage :

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