The Pop Corporation

Metronomy are back, gang! Now, we will be using the plural here because that’s how you talk about bands, but is Metronomy just Joe Mount really? We’re not wholly sure, so we’ll swerve the whole thing. More important is that there’s a new song to listen to called ‘Nice Town’ and it’s really good.

They (?) have signed to Ninja Tune which, as we all know, is a great label who allows artists the freedom to do the things they please, which is obviously good news for Metronomy. It’s a collab with Pan Amsterdam, who raps over a proto house electro beat and it’s a whole load of good time music, which we’re always in the market for.

This track is taken from a collaborative EP called ‘Posse EP Volume 1’, so we don’t actually know what that means for a full length LP from Metronomy themselves, but no matter – this is a cool thing that’s going in our ears right now.

Mount sez: “My collaborations always start out the same way. I send out a folder of ideas, beats mainly, and see what comes back. Some artists will play around with a number of the tracks, and some will focus just on one thing that works for them.”

“With Pan Amsterdam, it was the latter, one of those tracks that when he sent it back it was like ‘Oh wow’, it just all fell into place. It’s sort of an old school rap track, but in the case of Pan he doesn’t just rap, he’s also an incredible jazz trumpet player, who also works with Iggy Pop. To me, it’s exciting to be involved with artists at this point in their career. The whole spirit is one of discovering artists, and to make something that you find inspiring”.

Wanna listen?