Late Night Tales: Metronomy on CD
Late Night Tales: Metronomy
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Late Night Tales
- Item number:
- 3019242
- UPC/EAN:
- 5099997371526
- Release date:
- 3.9.2012
Other releases of Late Night Tales: Metronomy |
Price |
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| 2 LPs, (remastered) (180g) | EUR 29.99* |
Metronomy, the effective alias of the talented Joseph Mount, have thus far released three albums, starting with the jagged electro manoeuvres of their debut ‘Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)’, through to their two albums on Because, ‘Nights Out’, where Mount first sang, and last year’s brilliant Mercury-nominated ‘The English Riviera’. As a pop group, Metronomy that are more Four Tet than Fab Four, though with a sense of adventure that would’ve made the Fabs proud.
Their outing under the Late Night Tales banner journeys through the inspirations of the bands’ ever moving sound – along with a few surprises. Mount’s old favourite Autechre is present and correct, but then so are Kate and Anna McGarrigle and the Sun Ra of hip hop Sa-Ra Creative Partners. Joining Sa-Ra on the hip hop front, we’ve got Tweet’s ace ‘Drunk’ from her Hummingbird album alongside OutKast ‘Prototype’, spiced with some Doctor Octagon.
For pure pop, they don’t come more refined than Alan Parson’s ‘Eye In The Sky’, who is buffeted by outbreaks of unsettling weirdness, among them the sadly departed Mick Karn’s supple bass figurines on ‘Weather The Windmill’ or Tonto’s Expanding Head Band – the guys that brought the funk to synthesizers with Stevie Wonder – and ‘Cybernaut’.
And just when you think you’ve got it figured, Pete Drake arrives with his 1964 pedal steel novelty hit ‘Forever’. This is a maze rather than a journey. Naturally enough, there is the Late Night Tales special with a sparkling Metronomy rendition of Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Hypnose’.
We’ve always had a soft spot for Devon and her cobbled street delights, but seen through the prism of Joseph Mount, it takes on a new hue that makes Brigitte Bardot and that other, lesser, Riviera seem somehow pallid. To paraphrase Buzzcocks: another music in a different riviera.
(latenighttales. co. uk)
Rezensionen
,,... das ist auch das Rezept von Metronomy. Musiken der unterschiedlichsten Herkunft und Komplexitätsgrade zu einer Art ,,Soft Pop" zu fusionieren... (...) Und gut gemixt ist diese 29. Ausgabe der Late Night Tales auch noch." (musikexpress, Oktober 2012)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Outkast: Prototype
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2 Tweet: Drunk
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3 The Sa-Ra Creative Partners: Can I Get U Hi?
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4 Chick Corea: El Bozo (Part 1)
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5 Dr. Octagon: Blue Flowers
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6 World Class Wreckin Kru: Cache Vocal
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7 Metronomy: Hypnose
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8 Alessi Brothers: Seabird
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9 Autechre: Fold4,Wrap5
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10 Mick Karn (ex-Japan): Weather The Windmill
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11 Yougaku Tengoku The Teiban Vol. 4 BMG edition: Eye In The Sky
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12 Geneva Jacuzzi: Love Caboose
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13 Two Lone Swordsmen: You Are ....
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14 Tonto's Expanding Head Band: Cybernaut
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15 Pete Drake: Forever
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16 Appaloosa: The Day (We Fell In Love)
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17 Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Complainte Pour Ste Catherine
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18 Herman Dune (aka Herman Düne): Winners Lose
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19 Cat Power: Werewolf
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20 Paul Morley: Lost For Words Pt. 4
