“20 years into their career, Metronomy are as strong as ever”
“While Metronomy have spent their career hopping slickly from one genre to another, until now the shifts have come between albums, rather than within them. Whether the rudimentary bedroom electronica of 2006’s Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) or the Motown genuflections of 2014’s Love Letters, each LP has had its own distinctive sound. Metronomy Forever, however, is a wilfully eclectic glide throu”
“Just over 10 years ago, Metronomy went on a bender. ‘Nights Out’, their breakthrough album and soundtrack to a generation of freshers, was proof that indie, pop and electronic music could exist outside the clatterings of nu-rave, with the wobbly ‘Radio Ladio’ and new-wave aping ‘On Dancefloors’ being as sticky, garish and loveable as the clubs we all stumbled in and out of. Frontman Joe Mount and”
“Metronomy's reign as Britain's foremost wonk-poppers shows no sign of ending anytime soon”
“While the album's emergence is wholly indicative of frontman Joseph Mount's supposed "need to feed his children," in Metronomy Forever, the band have nonetheless blessed the world with at least a handful of tracks worthy of even the snobbiest dance floors.”
“A casual approach gives rise to some of the English electro-indie band’s best songs in years. But for anyone not already misty-eyed with nostalgia, a meandering 17-track album is a hard sell.”
