Sweat, choreographed dancing, infectious obscure electro-pop music, spilt beer…and zombies? Well I guess that is just about everything you should expect from the incredibly talented London via Devon trio Metronomy on all on All Hallows eve. As they take to the stage the room packed full of students in Joker costumes or, more commonly, those who hadn’t really planned ahead and are just covered in fake blood instead. Metronomy open with previous single ‘Holiday:’ a track featured their latest album Nights Out and a familiar sound to those who have caught them live before.  The abstract guitar noises that welcome Metronomy onto the stage quickly find their rhythm with the drum machine, which is shortly accompanied by a synth and the high-pitched vocals of the man mainly behind Metronomy, Joseph Mount. Continue Reading

Well, what better to dismiss the Monday morning gloom that to give away free stuff!

We’ve got a pair of tickets to see TLOBF favs Metronomy at London’s ULU on the 31st October.

If you’ve not seen our review, pop along to here to see what you’re missing out on.

Anyway, all you have to do is send an email to mailshot@thelineofbestfit.com with “I Want A Night Out With Metronomy” in the subject line, and we’ll pick one person at random.

The competition will close on Friday!

And, don’t worry, if you’re not a fan of Metronomy, we’ve got a pair of tickets for Okkervil River to give away next week!

Metronomy is Joseph Mount, and in live form, it also includes Gabriel Stebbing and Oscar Cash as support musicians. According to Mount, who has long been a very in-demand remixer, Nights Out, his second album, had its genesis as “a half-arsed concept album about going out and having a crap time”. It’s not entirely clear how much of that concept remains in this finished product - especially given that only half of the tracks have vocals to tell us what they’re about - but perhaps that reference to concept albums is a signal of the intelligent, varied and consistently interesting set of tracks that Nights Out consists of.

The album is sequenced as though it has a concept behind it - “Nights Intro” and “Nights Outro” bookend everything else, and “Back On The Motorway” is titled like a reprise of “On The Motorway”. Curiously, these pairs of tracks actually have very little in common, but despite that the sequencing and titling decisions clearly weren’t accidental. The 7^th of the twelve tracks is even called “Side 2″, and is draped in vinyl-esque crackling and hiss. Continue Reading