Metronomy
Nights Out

Really brilliant album, a lot more hooks than their first, lots more vocal parts, still got a really different sound.

toss up between this and late of the pier for my album of the year thus far!

and indeed it is a very sonically interesting record that rewards with repeated listens.

even after more than a dozen listens it still keeps me interested. Awesome

Ladytron, Radio Dept, Postal Service, etc all pre-empted this. I think it's natural for the alternative to explore soundscapes which conflict with whatever is monotonously mainstream. Also with everything being made and heard on computers, it makes so much sense for it to somewhat digital in aesthetic. Although this sounds like a topic which could become a weekly discussion...

I can see a progression from those bands.

There is some really good stuff around in it after having a bit of dig around.

you could say that some of those bands and this style of music came from Electro Clash and that was a bit faddy and blew over. Everything just keeps bukding and progressing anyway ts not like sounds stop happening they just move on a little bit at a time.

Wandering around Bestival on two separate occasions last week. Indie points plz.

between a vacuous fad and worthrhile progression is quality albums. Electro clash produced nothing of the sort, it was just fashion. To me, the fact that Cut Copy, LOTP, Metronomy, Friendly Fires and others have made really strong LPs which will endure is evidence that the current trend for indie bands exploring electronic elements has genuine artistic merit.

1st Metronomy album is better though.

never really produced any quality albums until well into its lifespan, and way after what originally was morphed into something different, it produced many classic singles, though. Although electroclash obviously didn't have quite the same impact as that, it too left a slew of classic singles, and has probably been as influential in this decade as Strokes-y guitar indie has. The current trend is a direct descendant of electroclash, as has been the blog house likes of Justice/Digitalism/Simian Mobile Disco and everything that came out in the wake of that, electro house generally, bands like Goldfrapp, pop music like Girls Aloud, Richard X's productions and latter day Kylie, and all manner of things. For a scene that was a fashionista flash in the pan in 2001/2002, it's influence is pretty wide ranging considering we're still hearing and talking about music not a million miles away from it in 2008.

outside my door to beat me up, but I don't rate this album all that highly.

Is that a prius? wtf...

why there's not an edit button anywhere?

against there being any quality albums come out of electroclash. Felix Da Housecat's Kittenz And Thee Glitz and Devin Dazzle, Ladytron's first 2, Chicks On Speed's 99 Cents, all easily equal recent efforts by Cut Copy, Late Of The Pier, Metronomy, etc. And because, unlike the current batch of albums, it was so mixed with actual dance music, there were masses of classic singles and compilations, with City Rockers and International Deejay Gigolos being the main 2 labels.

There's obviously earlier elements that have influenced bands fusing dance music and songs since 2002, but it was what happened in the early 2000s that brought a lot of those influences to the fore. Late 90s, although it was happening, it was rare to hear distinctly synthesised sounds in anything other than techno and trance; things was mainly about sampling and sample manipulation, you didn't hear many raw sawtooth tones or things that sounded like an analogue synthesiser outside of proper dance music. There really weren't many people exploring old synth pop, new wave, new romantic and classic house until after electroclash had happened. Even the current italo disco revival, interest in italo was first renewed in the late 90s by I-F, who, around the same time, recorded the song that's thought of as responsible for first kicking off electroclash and the electro revival of this decade generally.

Those three albums are getting the most play on my iPod at the moment.