“Metronomy sell mopey moods by the seashore: The British synth-poppers' last album was called The English Riviera, and now and then on their new one you even hear people splashing around. Love Letters opens with "The Upsetter," sounding like a message from some place stuck in 1992; the music starts out emaciated, but gets lusher as Joseph Mount reaches for his space-glitter falsetto. His zodiac kit”
“On Metronomy's new Love Letters, songwriter Joseph Mount arrives with another rearview glance at pop and rock history, aging backwards into a gray space between late psych and early glam.”