As lazy as one can find anniversary pressings, it was fitting that Metronomy reissued their album THE ENGLISH RIVIERA in 2021. After all, her masterpiece had a lot to do with nostalgia when it was released in 2011, with a longing for times and places that maybe never existed. And so it goes on. On the cover of their new studio album SMALL WORLD is a shot of singer Joe Mount’s mother: a garden photo taken near the British town where Mount grew up
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This Arcadia doesn’t look so pretty today, he says. Of course, we are finally in Metronomy’s SMALL WORLD, a theme park of millennial nostalgia, a travel destination for old souls with Capri on their minds, who of course have never been to Capri – and enjoy the music of their indie disco bands on an imaginary walk on the beach. time want to hear: electronic pop in the piano or guitar variant, which is definitely not the hottest shit anymore, but not the least bit bad either.
There’s also frothy organs, funk and disco light, soft pop and rock cuddling, as the Australian Berlin Parcels have perfected in a somewhat more mannered but also more consistent form. “It feels so good to be back / But our love is gone,” says the song “Good To Be Back,” and the line would of course have been a great gag if the album had sucked – but it’s nice that Metronomy are back to long for other days.
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