Brian Eno, Sparks, Devo, Talking Heads, Soft Cell... more recent examples of music full of experiment and risk and individuality, that somehow resolves itself into pop that makes you sing and dance and feel like a big kid, are hard to find. And then you have Metronomy.

This band is, in the current pop milieu, an utterly unique proposition.

Metronomy deliver elliptical, insidious, multi-coloured and richly textured art-pop sounds with their latest offering “Nights Out”.

‘Nights Out’, a timely, thrilling pop album born out of ten years of a boy from Devon playing around, mixing it up, taking his time, getting it right, and pleasing himself. It is the first to be vocal-led, with self-effacing founder member Joseph Mount stepping up and grabbing the mic for most of the tracks; and, crucially, the first to introduce Metronomy as a three-piece band, rather than a pseudonym for Joseph‘s solo work.

The new album is a second album that feels like a debut. It’s also a deliberate attempt to defy perceived wisdom about MP3 culture and the wilfully low attention span of those pesky, thieving noughties pop kids.