Love Letters
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.
Given the critical and commercial success of The English Riviera, Metronomy could have easily spent another album or two expanding on its polished, erudite pop.
Where The English Riviera was a love letter to British seasides, Love Letters is, well, you can guess. The titular track, with a female chorus cooing ‘lo-oove letters’ like The Supremes, has Joe Mount – the hopeless romantic – admitting defeat: ‘You’ve got me writing love letters.’
Hearing Metronomy's debut album, Pip Paine (Pay The 500 You Owe), in 2006, there was no reason to expect Joseph Mount would blossom into a Mercury Prize-nominated artist.
Under the direction of frontman and lead songwriter Joseph Mount, the last few years have seen Metronomy hone themselves into Britain's most unique and forward-thinking pop group.
Album review: Metronomy - 'Love Letters'. "The radical variation on this album speaks volumes, representing Joseph Mount at his most inventive."
The follow-up to 2011's The English Riviera is a frustrating mix of the sublime and the obtuse, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Review Of "Love Letters" By Metronomy. Their upcoming album comes out on March 10th via Because Music. Metronomy will start their tour March 13 in Liverpool