Metronomy’s Joseph Mount tells fans to expect a new album in 2016

Metronomy frontman Joseph Mount has stated in an interview that the group are currently working on a new album.

Mount was speaking to Digital Spy last weekend. The group were one of the many acts supporting Blur at British Summer Time, in London’s Hyde Park.

Speaking about the follow-up to ‘Love Letters’, Mount said: “I think this one is going to be an antidote to the last one in a way. The last one was incredibly minimal in the way it was recorded and very rough around edges. This new one will be very direct and big and poppy.”

Calling the new record a “confident dance record”, Mount added that it will be released at some point in 2016, while listing Beck and Bryan Ferry as influences on the release.

“With each record there’s a different goal,” he said. “I want the songs to be really strong, but with the new record it’s going to be as much about this feel and being groovy. Being groovy on this record is the name of the game. There’s nothing specific, but I guess there’s a period in artists’ careers…if you think of.. Bryan Ferry, where he went and did ‘Avalon’ and all this sophisticated pop music. I think that’s what I’m aiming for. A middle-aged man making sophisticated pop music. There’s the Beck album ‘Midnite Vulture’s - I want it to be like that but a bit different.”

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