Album of the Month: Metronomy - Nights Out

Although Metronomy’s elliptical, insidious, multi-coloured and richly textured art-pop sounds nothing like Cologne’s legendary purveyors of prog-disco, can offer some clues to the lineage Metronomy 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 and risk and individuality, that somehow resolves itself into pop that makes you sing at the top of your lungs, dance like no-one’s watching, and feel like a big kid, and you realise that you can’t think of any because Metronomy are, in the current pop milieu, an utterly unique proposition.

‘Nights Out’ resolutely taps into an 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.

Is ’Nights Out’ enlightening your eardrums or darkening your senses?...Hit comment!