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The English Riviera

Their third album: eleven tracks, nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize.
Metronomy, 2011

The English Riviera has eleven tracks and an iTunes bonus, "Tens and Tens". Mount wrote everything; the band is Mount, Cash, Prior and Adelekan, with Stebbing on bass and Nilesh mastering. John Gorham made the cover image. It reached 22 in France, went gold in the UK and earned two gold awards from IMPALA in 2012 for more than 150,000 sales in Europe.

Metacritic scored it 78. Guardian, Telegraph, AllMusic, Mojo, Q and Uncut each gave four stars out of five, the Observer three.

Track listing

  1. The English Riviera0:37
  2. We Broke Free4:05
  3. Everything Goes My Way3:30
  4. The Look4:37
  5. She Wants3:51
  6. Trouble4:46
  7. The Bay4:50
  8. Loving Arm3:31
  9. Corinne3:16
  10. Some Written6:03
  11. Love Underlined5:58

More from Metronomy

Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe) (2005), Nights Out (2008), Love Letters (2014), Summer 08 (2016), Metronomy Forever (2019), Small World (2022)

Sources

  1. The English Riviera (album), Wikipedia
  2. Metronomy interview, Gigwise (2011-04-15)
  3. Metronomy's The English Riviera at 10, The Forty-Five (2021-04)