January 5, 2006 | Posted by Blair at 3:30 PM

Mr. Metro' + PSA

brighton

Metronomy - Black Eye / Burnt Thumb

Just a quickie today because I'm pretty busy, but I wanted to let you know about a couple of things that are going on, AND let you all know the new single by MFR fave Metronomy is out and ready for you all to eat up!

Metronomy is Brighton-resident Joseph Mount and he makes really great lo-fi electronic songs - some chopped up drums, some live drums, wobbly synths, fuzzy guitars, a couple of tracks with vocals, and just enough glitches in the mix to give you little shivers down your spine.

This song comes off the You could easily have me EP, which came out in December - the EP also features two new songs, both of which are totally genius (and can be streamed on his Myspace page!). This track also appears on Metronomy's Pip Payne (pay back the £5,000 you owe) full-length, which is totally brilliant and worth tracking down. Metronomy's genius doesn't stop there though: he has also proven himself to be a great remixer, as you heard with his work on Sebastian Tellier's "La Ritournelle" (easily one of my favorite remix tracks of 2005).

You can purchase the EP and album from Rounder, Resident and Borderline (all in Bristol Brighton - sorry!), from Rough Trade, Puregroove, Sounds of the Universe, and Tatty Divine (in London), or direct from his label, Holiphonic or from iTunes!!.

In Other News: Come party with this robot!

I'll be slinging some tunes for Insound's Music Trivia Night at American Apparel's Pop-Up Shop (sponosored by Pabst, AmAp and Insound) - enter the contest and compete for prizes from Insound and American Apparel! This is TONIGHT, 7-9pm - 140 W. Broadway (between Duane & Thomas), Tribeca, NYC

PLUS another DJ gig - FRIDAY: Cut NYC and NY Press Presents Dirty Down - I'll be there from 11:30 or so and rocking all night long! No Cover, 12-1 Open Vodka + Red Bull Bar. @ LIT - 93 2nd Ave. between 5th + 6th st., East Village, NYC

ALSO, make sure you check out the Cliktrax 2005 wrapup featured on "the Dive" on the FUSE website or rerunning in Manhattan (Time Warner Ch. 56/RCN Ch. 108) on Sunday Jan 8 - 9:30pm / in Brooklyn (Time Warner Ch 35 - Cablevision Ch. 68) Tuesday, Dec 10 - 12:30am -- see me waxing poetic about some of the buzz bands from 2005!

2005 is so over - 2006 rules!

Comments

AWESOME!

Posted by: Zach at January 5, 2006 5:58 PM

Um, dont you mean Rounder, Resident and Borderline (all in BRIGHTON!!!). Im not sure about bristol but i know that we have all three of those independent (or so i thought) record shops down here in brighton!

Posted by: Dan at January 5, 2006 8:06 PM

Right you are Dan, sorry - I meant Brighton, obviously... us Americans are not too bright.

But some of us do have good enough taste to love Metronomy ;)

Posted by: robot Blair at January 5, 2006 11:10 PM

Tell you what though, some americans know whats going on in my local, ocean apart, music scene better than i do! Crap! I mustve been sleepin on this one! Thanks for the intro Blair!

Posted by: Dan at January 7, 2006 11:21 AM

Oooh - that's such a rockin track!

Thank you!

Posted by: Anthony at January 22, 2006 1:02 PM
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