shot at our studio-rehearsal space at a secret gig/super fun party with our friends. Album comes out digitally/on CD in late August, a bit later on LP, too!
Definitely getting a Homme/QOTSA vibe off the vocals (not that's a bad thing), and the whole thing percolates along at a nice bubbling clip. Will definitely keep my eyes / ears tuned for more!
the bass tone is an octave down pedal (Modtone Deep Dive, a clone of an EHX Octave Multiplexer) into the Mountainking Huge Box II. Played on a P/J with flats at the time
Live it doesn't really work because the guitar level is drastically different, so I'l just go with a fuzzy drive on a low E to stay punchy. The Huge Box has a bit slower attack
There's also this track that has just been released on a compilation for our label's stage on arguably the best and the biggest festival in the Czech Republic where we're playing this summer. Headliners are Slowdive, M83, Tame Impala... and there's a lot of good bands anyway
a piece of trivia: the instrumental is - as every one of our songs on the album - a live recording aside from the vocals. It was a one-take jam that we jammed out really high, spontaneously with the frontman mouthing chord changes at me
"Names and titles are slippery things. METRONOME BLUES started as an album title and became the name of the band. SIDES is the name of the new album. Two sides. Black and white. Eight songs with titles like War Crimes, Unliving, The Wireless Enemy. Sounds bleak. It is. Living in an eternal midnight plays strange tricks on the mind. We are post-factual. Words are mangled mongrels of meaning. Whose collateral damage will we be? It has always been a zero-sum game: choose a side at your peril."
Tracklist
01 Lonely Sun (3:49) 02 Black Wind (5:57) 03 War Crimes (3:57) 04 Unliving (6:10) 05 Fickle (5:11) 06 Phase (5:29) 07 Glassed Eagles (4:48) 08 The Wireless Enemy (6:26)
All songs written and produced by Rhys Braddock and Metronome Blues (c)2016
MB are: Rhys Braddock Honza Čapek Lukaš Baumann
ps: all of the instrumentals were recorded live with some guitar overdubs and separate vocal takes. Some of these are first take jams. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it