Metronomy have announced a 10th anniversary special edition of their Mercury Prize nominated album ‘The English Riviera’ featuring six previously unreleased tracks including Picking Up For You (listen below). Along with the announcement of the album’s re-release Metronomy have also announced a congruent tour including a show at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on April 26th 2022.

“My first apartment in Paris had an almost comically perfect view of Montmartre and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica. In the shadow of the Sacré Coeur, with Barbès and the hill of Montmartre as a backdrop, I sat idly one day and wrote what would become one of Metronomy’s most popular songs,” explains Joe.

“I was tinkering around with one of Marion’s keyboards and after a short while came up with the bit that gets stuck in your head; the der-de-der-der bit. I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought ‘it’s not really Metronomy, is it’. Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London. We quite liked it, but that was about it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.

“I still don’t know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.”

Pre-order ‘The English Riviera’ here

The English Riviera 10th Anniversary Edition track listing

The English Riviera

We Broke Free

Everything Goes My Way

The Look

She Wants

Trouble

The Bay

Loving Arm

Corrine

Some Written

Love Underlined

Additional Tracks:

Aquarius

Picking Up For You

French Organ

Friends

The Ballad Of The 17 Year Old

Jazz Odyssey

Metronomy have at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on April 26th 2022. Tickets from €25 inclusive go on sale this Friday at 10am via www.ticketmaster.ie