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Oct 3, 2019With the range, depth and lyrical class Metronomy brings to Metronomy Forever, it’s quite a fun listen, one that shows how the group has evolved over their lengthy career. The electronic orchestration will leave you bopping through memory lane as you reminisce on old love.
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Sep 23, 2019There’s so much to take in that it requires many listens before all of Metronomy Forever’s charms reveal themselves, in part because of the palate-cleansing interstitial drones spread across the album. It’s worth the wait.
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Sep 16, 2019This is peak Metronomy, Mount and his charges at the top of the game as they move with pop music’s ever-evolving sound.
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Sep 13, 2019Unexpected, indulgent, and an absolute joy, ‘Metronomy Forever’ is a prophecy to get behind.
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Sep 12, 2019Overall this is Metronomy at their most ambitious and pleasurably weird.
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Sep 12, 2019Metronomy Forever is, in many ways, remarkable: the band have proved their longevity and ability to reinvent, retool and still maintain their love and ability to pen stellar pop songs. We’re already looking forward the sequel.
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Sep 11, 2019Tracks are also structurally diverse. Fans expecting an album stacked with back-to-back bangers, as Nights Out (2008) and The English Riviera (2011) are, will be caught off guard. Instead Mount gives his creative muscles space to flex wide, sandwiching catchy hits between mysterious soundscapes and zany instrumentals.
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MojoSep 10, 2019Real heart pulses behind the earwiggy riffs, the lyrics tracing ideas of love from first stage to last, more nuances being revealed on each play. [Oct 2019, p.85]
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Q MagazineSep 10, 2019Despite its running time and the magpie-like pilfering, on this amusing and bemusing album Mount never seems remotely in danger of repeating himself--or, for that matter, anybody else. [Oct 2019, p.112]
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Oct 3, 2019Metronomy Forever has a welcomed freshness, with much of the album representing the band's best material from their latest few albums.
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Sep 16, 2019Even if it occasionally borders on being too indulgent, Metronomy Forever still gets at the contradictions and surprises that have always made their music special.
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Sep 11, 2019At seventeen tracks it's a purposefully meandering ride, one filled with funky instrumentals and ambient vignettes. While songs such as 'Lately', 'Insecurity' and 'Sex Emoji' show the band has not lost their ability to deliver funky floor-fillers, it's the more subdued material that really shines.
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UncutSep 10, 2019Lots to unpack, and it's a pleasure to do so. [Oct 2019, p.30]
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Sep 10, 2019While the album's emergence is wholly indicative of frontman Joseph Mount's supposed "need to feed his children," in Metronomy Forever, the band have nonetheless blessed the world with at least a handful of tracks worthy of even the snobbiest dance floors.
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Sep 17, 2019Intentionally making musical wallpaper doesn’t sound like an exciting prospect, but Mount seems invigorated by abandoning the pursuit of the perfectly structured 10-track record.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 48
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Mixed: 3 out of 48
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Negative: 2 out of 48
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