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Metronomys career-changing album The English Riviera is turning ten years old.
To celebrate, the band are re-issuing their much-loved album with six previously unreleased bonus tracks available for
fans to stream and buy on 30th April 2021 via Because Music. The reissue will be available on limited edition and
numbered heavyweight 180g vinyl with etched fantascope on side D. To mark the announcement, the Joseph
Of the anniversary, Joe says My first apartment in Paris had an almost comically perfect view of Montmartre and the
Sacré-Cœur Basilica. In the shadow of the Sacré Coeur, with Barbès and the hill of Montmartre as a backdrop, I sat idly
one day and wrote what would become one of Metronomys most popular songs.
I was tinkering around with one of Marions keyboards and after a short while came up with the bit that gets stuck in
your head; the der-de-der-der bit. I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought its not really Metronomy, is it.
Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London. We quite liked it, but that was about
it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first
time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.
I still dont know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people
chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is
amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.
A love letter to the stretch of coast a stone’s throw from where Joe grew up, The English Riviera marked a breakout
moment in the bands history that would lead them to global success and see them constantly developing their sound
for a decade to come. The band are currently working on what will be their seventh album, due for release next year.
Metronomys biggest album to date, The English Riviera was nominated for the Mercury Prize, is certified Gold in the UK
and platinum in France, and upon release was met with wide scale critical acclaim: ranked as NMEs #2 album of the
year (a deep sea of ideas and imagination), NYLONs #2, Uncuts #3, Mixmags #4, and #7 by The Guardian (an
assured, beguiling album) among many other end of year lists. The English Rivieras standout tracks The Look and
The Bay remain Metronomys biggest and best recognised songs to date.
TRACKLIST
- THE ENGLISH RIVIERA
- WE BROKE FREE
- EVERYTHING GOES MY WAY
- THE LOOK
- SHE WANTS
- TROUBLE
- THE BAY
- LOVING ARM
- CORINNE
- SOME WRITTEN
- LOVE UNDERLINED
- AQUARIUS (OUTTAKE)
- PICKING UP FOR YOU (OUTTAKE)
- FRENCH ORGAN (OUTTAKE)
- FRIENDS (OUTTAKE)
- THE BALLAD OF THE 17 YEAR OLD (OUTTAKE)
- JAZZ ODYSSEY (OUTTAKE)
SIDE D is Etched
The English Riviera (10th Anniversary Edition)
£25.99
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