The indie-pop world’s most cherished darlings have come in from the cold. Metronomy,
after not releasing much since 2011′s The English Riviera, galloped
back into our periphery ice-cool and bearing arms. Their triumphant
return, Love Letters,
is a far cry from the pop-smothered electronics on their last album,
with the first snippet of the Devonshire foursome’s new material
sounding like an infuriatingly everchanging melting pot of
Fight Club
OST drum machines, ’60s motown backing vox, lo-fi pop and the rickety
click-clack of barebones ’80s electronica, probably helped by the analog
fanatics at Toe Rag. It shouldn’t work, but the end result – probably
due to mainman Joe Mount’s Midas fingers – is spectacular.
