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Artist:	METRONOMY
Title:	My Heart Rate Rapid
Label:	BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	BEC 5772280

2008 release. The first single to be lifted from the album Nights Out LP is a flawless representation of some of the freakishly danceable tracks contained therein. A wholly original mashup of electronics, "My Heart Rate Rapid" is sheer falsetto-laden, drum-battering brilliance. Although Metronomy's elliptical, insidious, multi-colored art-pop sounds nothing like Cologne's legendary purveyors of prog-disco, Can do offer clues to the lineage the band belong to. Add early Brian Eno, Sparks, Devo, Talking Heads, Soft Cell, and then scratch your head for more recent examples of abstract music, full of experiment, risk, and individuality that somehow resolves itself into pop... that makes you sing and dance and feel like a big kid... and you realize that you can't think of any, because Metronomy are, in the current pop milieu, an utterly unique proposition.

Artist:	METRONOMY
Title:	The English Riviera
Label:	BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	BEC 5772894

Metronomy present their third album The English Riviera. The follow up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Nights Out, The English Riviera is a sonic progression of epic proportions and affirms Metronomy front man and producer, Joseph Mount, as a rare British talent. Since Nights Out, the band have swollen to a four-piece with new members Anna Prior on drums, Gbenga Adelekan on bass, original member Oscar Cash on keys/sax, and Joe himself on vocals, keys and guitar. This expansion of personnel is reflective of a new record that is mapped by vast soundscapes, incredible depth and warmth, and big pop hooks. Part love letter to the area of Devon coast Mount grew up in and part concept album about his own semi-fictionalized vision of The English Riviera, the tone for the album is set by the opening sounds of seagulls, distant waves and a Music Hall string quartet. However, any notion of whimsy is swiftly dispelled, as the seismic bass line of "We Broke Free" shudders and ushers in waves of layered guitars and synths. Having produced and remixed everyone from Roots Manuva to Kate Nash an album from Nicola Roberts, this is the first Metronomy album that Mount has taken out of his bedroom and recorded in a proper studio. The results are telling. Characterized throughout with a sense of warmth and richness, The English Riviera is in parts reminiscent of seminal 1970s West Coast studio albums from the likes of Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles, but due to Mount's studio wizardry, the record sounds vibrant and entirely of its time. Few other albums will so successfully transcend such a plethora of influences and ideas and form such a coherent body of work.

Artist:	METRONOMY
Title:	Nights Out
Label:	BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BEC 5772393

Re-released for the U.S. in light of Metronomy's 2011 Mercury Prize Nomination (for their third album The English Riviera). This is the CD version of Metronomy's second studio album, 2008's Nights Out. It is their first album to be vocal-led, with self-effacing founding member Joseph Mount stepping up and grabbing the mic for most of the tracks; and, crucially, the first to introduce Metronomy as a three-piece band, rather than a pseudonym for Joseph's solo work. Although Joseph has worked with Gabriel Stebbing (bass, keyboards) and Oscar Cash (sax, keyboards) since their Devon childhoods, it's the success of the trio's live shows that led to the realization that the three schoolfriends are a bonafide group. Nights Out resolutely ignores the current vogue for yelping in a provincial accent about mingers and kebabs, and taps into a more elegant, enduring and truthful pop mood -- that feeling of being at your most lost and alone when crushed into a room full of revellers high on drugs and desperation. Musically, Metronomy march to the beat of their own synthetic drum. But Joseph's experiences of touring the nightclubs of the world, finishing his set, and then feeling unable to join in the surrounding debauchery makes Nights Out the wonky love-child of Giorgio Moroder, New Order, Pet Shop Boys and Unfinished Sympathy. Indeed, "On Dancefloors" might be the saddest song about partying ever made.

Artist:	METRONOMY
Title:	Pip Paine (Pay The �5000 You Owe)
Label:	BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BEC 5772599

This is the first album released by Joseph Mount (aka Metronomy). Initially released in 2006, this first album was a collector's edition limited to 2,500 copies. This developed the Metronomy buzz thanks to the tracks "You Could Easily Have Me" and "Tricks Or Treats." This new version includes four bonus tracks: "Are Mums Mates," "Hear To Wear," "Another Me To Mother You" and the unreleased track "In The D.O.D." Includes 4 bonus tracks. Re-released for the U.S. in light of Metronomy's 2011 Mercury Prize Nomination (for their third album The English Riviera).

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