Nights Out Tracklist
Released in 2008, Metronomy’s second album Nights Out is a synth-driven nostalgia trip to dancefloors gone by. Joseph Mount creates wave after wave of ear-snatching melodies and flings them together with joyful abandon; the soundscapes are Busy with a capital bee, but as they fly past its hard not to burst into a beaming smile.
The poppy melodies here would be right at home on the chart-wrecking singles of the summer, but they’re anchored to the normal by Mount’s often sorrowful, backward-glancing crooning. Frank Sinatra he ain’t, but his weightless, waif-like voice brings the kind of character rarely seen on tracks like this.
It’s a killer, weird electronic album with a confused heart, and if you’re not careful you’ll fall totally in love with it.
