Review: Metronomy 'Nights Out'

Embodying a physical habitat through a compilation of ears confusing tunes is not as easy as looking at an object and finding inspiration like the so called artists & fashioners swear and deceive by, It's all about going over the top with it, smothering the senses in what could be mistaken for a mental difficulty; for instance LCD Soundsystem covered the endoskeleton of the studio walls, ceiling & equipments with shiny aluminum foil to achieve Sound Of silver; Hot Chip spray covered their gear with neon phosphor, turned off the lights and made it in the dark.. Yet Metronomy's method cannot be figured for they radiate with more weirdness than reality can resolute.

If bands are more likely to be discovered at bars & local pubs, Metronomy will be found at a balloon decorated funeral or a bar mitzvah at club Bollywood. – Nights Out is a semi-concept album that consults the uncomfortable situations involved with relationships in the real world & the unexplainable gut wrenching cramps that precedes a big night out, soon to go against your plans!

Listening to Nights Out I can only imagine them at an old bookstore owned by a deaf man, in a dimmed corner rehearsing to a self setup audience of lights covered household appliances; there's a certain discomfort to the sound that raises the questions why & since when did your brain start understanding such eccentricity, because the songs actually sound like they were recorded to a corrupted disc that the label mistakenly released while everyone in the media & the public are praising it as art.

Sort of eating a can of expired fruits that despite the rancidness it still tastes sweet, they didn't invent new instruments, Joseph Mount opted what any other band use to make their music except tamed it to speak the language he spoke; wonky guitars, elastic bass, unsteady drum machine beats, burlesque synths, punctured accordions, claps & lots of keyboard finger plays that form the final product of detuned electro-pop that despite their disorder are the most original catchy tunes you've heard in a long time!

It's my perfect soundtrack to embarrassing situations & inexplicable melancholy moments that can only be gotten rid of by distraction. - Joseph Mount is the coolest villain disguised as a sheriff underhandedly screwing pop up to build his tribe of bizarre music loving artsfags & artsbitches.

Liking this sort of music only proves that your brain functions aesthetically better than everyone else miserably hyping over the commercial charts, & the next time you see a bunch of people at a party wearing veils while doing the robot dance & moonwalking, just listen closely because Metronomy is playing.

8.9/10

Bonus: Metronomy - Matthias Gathering (Non Album Track)

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