Metronomy Share Video For New Song “Nice Town” (Feat. Pan Amsterdam) + Two Remixes
The band's first single for Ninja Tune
March 12, 2024
Photograph: Lewis Khan
Metronomy share a new song, “Nice Town,” which is a New York collaboration via Houston artist Pan Amsterdam. It also marks Metronomy's first release for Ninja Tune, who have just announced they have signed the band. “Nice Town” is the first single from a new project that will serve as a follow-up to Metronomy's Posse EP Volume 1, which was a collaborative EP from 2021. The single will be released on 12-inch vinyl on March 22nd in the UK and April 19th in America. Watch the “Nice Town” video below, followed by two remixes of the song.
The band's leader and only permanent member, Joe Mount, said in a press release: “My collaborations always start the same way. I send out an envelope of ideas, mostly beats, and see what comes back. Some artists will play with various pieces and some will focus on just one thing that works for them. With Pan Amsterdam, it was the last one, one of those pieces that when he sent it back it was like “Oh wow”, it all just fell into place…. It's kind of an old school rap track, but in Pan's case he doesn't just rap, he's also an incredible jazz trumpet player, who also works with Iggy Pop.”
Pan Amsterdam says: “'Nice Town' deals with my own battles. With the inside versus the outside or, intangible versus tangible. I always try to remember that the tangibles may applaud my pursuit in trying to fulfill my purpose, but that my purpose is not tangible. Nor is it for my ego to be satisfied. A “City” can be a “Nice” thing to be accused of during these reckonings with the inner dimensions of one's self. And it's 'Nice' to have a new 'Town' interrupting this reckoning and escaping.”
Mount adds: “For me, it's exciting to be involved with artists at this point in their career. The whole spirit is to discover artists and do something that inspires you.”
Of joining Ninja Tune, Mount says, “It feels like a full-circle moment. As a teenager I was obsessed with the romance of labels like Ninja Tune, Warp and Wall of Sound. The artists they represented really made me who I am as a musician today. With Ninja Tune, it's a label that's come from momentum in a time when it's pretty hard to do that, and that's something I think can be said for Metronomy as well.”
Metronomy's album, Small worldreleased in 2022 via Why Music.
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