EDIT: live radio session vid - Metronome Blues

[DarkAxel]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJ25d4uqm4[/youtube]

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!



edit: you can find the whole album here https://metronomeblues.bandcamp.com/album/sides

edit: live session on Radio Wave in Prague
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XI6lRcApPM[/youtube]

[jrmy]

Nice! Digging the fuzzy low end for sure.

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!

[D.o.S.]

Is tasty. Would support.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Cool song!

[DarkAxel]

cheers, guys!

I think the principal reference of the harmonies was Bowie, but... yeah, I know Everyone keeps saying QOTSA

[jrmy]

cheers, guys!

I think the principal reference of the harmonies was Bowie, but... yeah, I know Everyone keeps saying QOTSA

Hey, I'm pretty sure he influenced them, so I guess that's kinda valid either way. I can definitely hear it now that you've said it specifically.

What sort of bass dirt do you have going on for that one? Sounds pretty rad.

[D.o.S.]

I mean 2:54 onward is straight from the Homme playbook.

And I mean that in a good way. Because it's glorious.

[DarkAxel]

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

[gnomethrone]

Really solid track. Rhythm section makes me wanna dance.
Gonna drop any more before the full album or do we have to wait?

[DarkAxel]

there was this taster track which is also going to be on the album it's not a final mix though

might do another video out, but that would be for this track probably... launch is 17th Aug I think tho

[DarkAxel]

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

https://fullmoonmag.bandcamp.com/track/ ... less-enemy
(no idea how to use the "bandcamp" embed)

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

[D.o.S.]

Oh this one is niiice.

[DarkAxel]

Thanks, boo

[DarkAxel]

The album officially comes out tomorrow, but it has just been available on Bandcamp here https://metronomeblues.bandcamp.com/album/sides



"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

[D.o.S.]

Dig the album art a lot. Will listen later today.