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Metronomy are releasing a special 10th anniversary edition of ‘The English Riviera’

  • Stephen Ackroyd
  • March 10, 2021
Photo credit: Gregorie Alexandre

Metronomy are celebrating the 10th birthday of their third studio album ‘The English Riviera’ with a special edition of the record.

Released on 30th April, it’ll feature 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks – the first of which, ‘Picking Up For You’, you can stream today.

Of the anniversary, leader Joe Mount explains “My first apartment in Paris had an almost comically perfect view of Montmartre and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica. In the shadow of the Sacré Coeur, with Barbès and the hill of Montmartre as a backdrop, I sat idly one day and wrote what would become one of Metronomy’s most popular songs.

I was tinkering around with one of Marion’s keyboards and after a short while came up with the bit that gets stuck in your head; the der-de-der-der bit. I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought ‘it’s not really Metronomy, is it’. Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London. We quite liked it, but that was about it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.

I still don’t know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.”

So there we go.

You can check out ‘Picking Up For You’ below.

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