Het nieuwe album heet The English Riviera. Een zeer aanstekelijk popliedje van Metronomy. Voorman is Joseph Mount uit Devon, UK. De band is in bepaalde internetkringen bekend van hun remixen voor de Gorillaz, Roots Manuva, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Goldfrapp, The Young Knives, Zero 7 en Lykke Li.
The idea of The English Riviera connects Mount and co with the chunk of the South West coastline near to where he grew up. “I just fantasised that this area was a cutting edge place of music and youth culture, which it isn’t at all,” he explains. “Imagining that this part of England creates a specific kind of music – the ‘Devon Sound’ – similar to West Coast studio music of the 1970s. If you went there and you had the geographical landscape in mind you’d end up making quite reflective, introspective music. This was just me writing a fantasy about Devon being this cool place like Portland, Oregon, so saying ‘I’m from the English Riviera’ to the music press would get you a few column inches, instead of remind you of Fawlty Towers.”
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