Metronomy

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When
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022
9 p.m.
Cost: $27.50
Where
128 NE Russell St
Portland, OR 97212

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Led by multi-instrumentalist and producer Joseph Mount, Metronomy grew from a scrappy, lo-fi side project into one of the more creative acts mixing rock and electronic music. Drawing on influences ranging from Devo and David Bowie to N.E.R.D. and Pavement, Mount established Metronomy as an equally catchy and off-kilter act with 2006’s Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe). The project’s later albums, such as 2011’s Mercury Prize-nominated The English Riviera, were smoother and more sophisticated but still incorporated unexpected elements that ranged from the Motown and blue-eyed soul homages of 2014’s Love Letters to the retro-futurism of 2019’s Metronomy Forever.

Named after the musical term for measuring time by an instrument, Mount started Metronomy in 1999 as a side project to the other bands he played with, using an old computer that his father gave him to record songs. Metronomy’s first full-band lineup included keyboardist/saxophonist Oscar Cash and keyboardist/bassist Gabriel Stebbing. Before Metronomy, Mount and Stebbing played together in bands such as the Upsides, a pop group the pair described as "the original Busted," and the Customers, with whom they played in university.

When his cousin Cash joined Metronomy, it became the trio’s main project. The band earned buzz for their engaging live shows and official and unofficial remixes of tracks by Gorillaz, Architecture in Helsinki, Sebastien Tellier, Kate Nash, U2, and Britney Spears.