Name: Small World
Brand: Metronomy

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BEC5610028

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Marble Blue and White

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

140 Gram Vinyl housed in Embossed Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner. Plus 12x12 4 Page Comic Book.

Format Music US

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2022-02-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5056556100287

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / blue

899077151

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Clear

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Indie Exclusive

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Unive­rsal

5060899077151

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

0899077144

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Black

Extended format: No

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Metronomy

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Because Music

Metronomy is a British electronic/alternative band that began in the bohemian market town of Totnes in Devon, UK. The brainchild of Joseph Mount, the band was formed when his father sold him a computer to pursue his passion for making electronic music. Inspired by artists such as Autechre, LFO, and Aphex Twin, Metronomy started as a creative hobby rather than a pop masterplan.

Now on album number seven, Metronomy has continued where many of their 2000s ‘cool’ band peers have dropped off along the way. Small World is a return to simple pleasures, nature, an embracing in part of more pared down, songwriterly sonics (some moments wouldn’t sound amiss on a Wilco release), all while asking broader existential questions: which feels at least somewhat rooted in the period of time during which it was made – 2020. For all that Mount seems to think he has made a comparatively sombre record, much of Small World still pulses with the zesty, tongue-in-cheek joie de vivre you’d expect of a Metronomy record.

So sure, things are different now Joe Mount is getting older and what’s on his mind is changing, but that doesn’t mark a change in quality for Metronomy. An immaculate set of tracks, Joe Mount’s ability as a songwriter and arranger shines through on Small World, evergreen. Metronomy might be growing up, but they’re not afraid to still have fun with it all. Through the tumultuous ebb and flow of the years, Metronomy continues to endure and make great pop music – and, really, that’s all that we could ask for.

Small World

Music US

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