METRONOMY - I'M AQUARIUS

Aw yeeeeeeeeah, they're back! The band released this with some stargazing app tonight but eff that, I waited for the Soundcloud. Nothing to do with my phone being too full to take even one measly photo. (Should have got more than 8mb shouldn't I? #povvo) Anyway,on first listen this track feels like it never really gets off the ground, but after a few listens it becomes clear that it will probably be a grower, much like their previous offerings. Which I adore. 2011's The English Riviera was the soundtrack to my er, 2011 French Riviera holiday which was a dream and a half. (It was also the holiday on which we discovered you could pan fry a pizza.) 

I'm assuming the rest of the band have drowned in the pink gloop?

My housemate has just come into my room and done the most horrific dance to this (there was thrusting) which I think means it's catchy if it was enough to lure him up the stairs.

I'm Aquarius is out now. 

New album Love Letters is out 10th March 2014.

METRONOMY - THE BAY (EROL ALKAN'S EXTENDED REWORK)

So I already loved this but when Erol Alkan dropped it at yesterday's Field Day it sounded so goooooooooooooood. Only gripe I have is that he was on at 6pm. Whoever drew up the schedule for yesterday did a pretty shit job. Willy Mason at 12.30pm? Really? I was still eating my (second) breakfast then. Wah.

THIS TOWN IS THE OLDEST FRIEND OF MINE

I just spent a week in the French Riviera and funnily enough, Metronomy's album The English Riviera was our faithful musical companion when we realised the car didn't have anywhere to plug in our iPod adaptor. Bonjour back-up CDs! This song was in our heads the whole holiday and is now the soundtrack to the sleepiest French village ever.



I really wasn't feeling this album when it first came out but it's a grower. As all the best albums are. Ohhhhhhh, to be back in France. Sigh.