Love Letters

Personnel: Joseph Mount (vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums); Airelle Besson, Daniel Zimmerman, Thomas De Pourquery (horns); Oscar Cash (piano, keyboards); Michael Lovett (keyboards); Olugbenga Adelekan (bass guitar); Anna Prior (drums); Jaelee Small, HowAboutBeth, Kenzie May Bryant (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Ash Workman.Recording information: Toe Rag Studios, London, England.Editor: Luke Oldfield.Given the critical and commercial success of The English Riviera, Metronomy could have easily spent another album or two expanding on its polished, erudite pop. However, they're too mercurial a band to do the obvious thing. On Love Letters, they abandon their previous album's sleek precision for fuzzy analog charm. Metronomy recorded the album at London's Toe Rag studio, a fixture of British indie rock, and Joe Mount and company imbue these songs with the room's warmth and intimacy. Musically and emotionally, Love Letters is rawer than what came before it, trading breezy synth pop for i