Metronomy announce 10th anniversary reissue of 'The English Riviera'

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Mercury Prize-nominated studio album 'The English Riviera', Metronomy have now announced their plans to rerelease the full-length with a further six bonus tracks.

The reissue will be available on limited edition and numbered heavyweight 180g vinyl with etched fantascope on side D, is being previewed by the previously unheard bonus track 'Picking Up For You', and is set to be released on the 30th April via Because Music.

Speaking about the new reissue, the band's Joe Mount said, “My first apartment in Paris had an almost comically perfect view of Montmartre and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica. In the shadow of the Sacré Coeur, with Barbès and the hill of Montmartre as a backdrop, I sat idly one day and wrote what would become one of Metronomy’s most popular songs.

"I was tinkering around with one of Marion’s keyboards and after a short while came up with the bit that gets stuck in your head; the der-de-der-der bit. I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought ‘it’s not really Metronomy, is it’. Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London. We quite liked it, but that was about it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.

"I still don’t know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.”

Have a listen to 'Picking Up For You' in the player and see the full tracklisting for the extended version below.

'The English Riviera: 10th Anniversary Edition:
The English Riviera
We Broke Free
Everything Goes My Way
The Look
She Wants
Trouble
The Bay
Loving Arm
Corrine
Some Written
Love Underlined

Aquarius
Picking Up For You
French Organ
Friends
The Ballad Of The 17 Year Old
Jazz Odyssey

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