Metronomy are an electronic music fascination, their music consists of instrumental disco music and more recently, with the release of Nights Out, vocal electronic pop. The quartet are accomplished remixers, having remixed many artists including, Kate Nash, Franz Ferdinand and the Klaxons. The beauty of Metronomy’s music is in their imagination. In many ways they’re a keyboard heavy electro indie group of the currently popular kind, however they have tunes, substance and all round creative excellence that similar bands can’t match. Equipped with their usual human-bulb t-shirts they fly into My Heart Rate Rapid and the throbbing beats fill the venue rousing a jam packed audience into a swarm of bobbing disco dancers. Joseph Mount and Oscar Cash make some brilliant low key hits which are difficult to define by genre , at times its French accordions blaring, others it’s a harmony of Casino keyboards , and then at times it’s totally bitter sweet modern day pop balladry at its greatest. Throughout the exceptionally short set they thrust tracks from both their albums into the sparkling academy, including favourites, A Thing For Me and Heartbreaker vs. Holiday, their set is smooth, smart and eclectic all the way through. As the band move towards their final stages they play crowd pleaser You Could Easily Have Me and with its heavy guitar riff, crashing cymbals and shaky synth melody, it creates enough frenzied kinetic energy to take the roof off the place.

By Sophie Stratford