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Jun 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Gregoire Alexandre Metronomy

Metronomy have announced a new album, Metronomy Forever, and shared a video for a new song from it, “Salted Caramel Ice Cream.” Metronomy Forever is due out September 13 via Because Music. It includes “Lately,” a new song the British band shared via a video last month (it was #1 on our Songs of the Week list). Check out the “Salted Caramel Ice Cream” video below, followed by the “Lately” video again and the album’s tracklist and cover art (by Anne Zeum). Also below are the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Metronomy Forever is the follow-up to 2016’s Summer 08. Since then frontman Joseph Mount did production work on Robyn‘s Honey (Robyn appeared on Summer 08). Mount also moved from Paris to the English countryside, which influenced the album.

Mount had this to say about Metronomy Forever in a press release: “What happens is when you’re making music and you enter a world where you have achieved some sort of celebrity no matter how large or small you start to think about yourself in terms of legacy and what you’re going to leave behind and then you realize that’s limited to the interest people have in you. In the end I feel completely comfortable with it. The less importance you place in any art the more interesting it can become in a way…I’m making music, I’m going to do some concerts, I need to feed my children.”

The video for “Lately” was Mount’s directorial debut and he returns behind the camera for the “Salted Caramel Ice Cream” video.

Mount had this to say about the video in a press release: “Years ago a friend of mine gave me a VHS tape of the MTV show 120 Minutes. It’s something I’d get him to do every so often as I was a bit obsessed with music TV at the time. On one particular tape was the video for ‘Sonne’ by Rammstein, I’d never seen them before and it blew my mind. This video is a sort of homage to that, but with an added story about the gentrification of ice cream parlors.”

Read our 2016 interview with Metronomy.

Metronomy Forever Tracklist:

1. Wedding
2. Whitsand Bay
3. Insecurity
4. Salted Caramel Ice Cream
5. Driving
6. Lately
7. Lying Now
8. Forever Is A Long Time
9. The Light
10. Sex Emoji
11. Walking In The Dark
12. Insecure
13. Miracle Rooftop
14. Upset My Girlfriend
15. Wedding Bells
16. Lately Going Spare
17. Ur Minxtape

Metronomy Tour Dates:

6/21 - Milan, Italy @ Music Is My Radar
6/28 - St. Gallen, Switzerland @ Open Air Festival
6/29 - Luxembourg @ Siren’s Call
7/4 - Glasgow, Scotland @ Electric Fields (headliners)
7/5th - Casablanca, Morocco @ Jazzablanca
7/10 - Madrid, Spain @ Mad Cool
7/13 - Dour, Belgium @ Dour Festival
7/14 - Tours, France @ Terres Du Son
7/18 - Lisbon, Portugal @ Super Bock Super Rock
7/20 - Freiburg, Germany @ ZMF Festival
7/25 - Lugano, Switzerland @ ROAM
7/26 - Saint-Tropez, France @ Plage de Rock
7/28 - Aulnoye-Aymeries, France @ Les Nuits Secrètes
8/17 - Saint-Malo, France @ La Route du Rock
8/24 - Chorzów, Poland @ Fest
8/31 - Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland @ Electric Picnic
9/1 - Dorset, England @ End of the Road
10/9 - Bordeaux, France @ Rocher de Palmer
10/10 - Nantes, France @ Stereolux
10/11 - Lyon, France @ Amphitheatre 3
10/12 - Toulouse, France @ Le Bikini
10/15 - Paris, France @ Olympia
10/18 - Nancy, France @ Jazz Pulsations
10/19 - Antwerp, Belgium @ De Roma
10/21 - Munich, Germany @ Tonhalle
10/22 - Cologne, Germany @ Carlswerk
10/23 - Hamburg, Germany @ Docks
10/24 - Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle
10/26 - Offenbach am Main, Germany @ Capitol
10/28 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
10/29 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
11/6 - Southampton, UK @ Guildhall
11/8 - London, UK @ The Roundhouse
11/9 - Manchester, UK @ Academy
11/11 - Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
11/13 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
11/14 - Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
11/15 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
11/16 - Birmingham, UK @ The O2 Institute

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