Metronomy Release New Single Nice Town Featuring Pan Amsterdam
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Lewis Kahn
Metronomy have released a new single, Nice Town.
The experimental collaboration with alternative hip hop act Pan Amsterdam comes with news that the band have signed a deal with Ninja Tune, after half a decade on Because Music. Metronomy founder and primary songwriter Joe Mount commented:
"It feels like a full circle moment. As a teenager I was obsessed with the romance of labels like Ninja Tune, Warp and Wall of Sound. The artists they represented really made me who I am as a musician today. With Ninja Tune, they are a label who have gone from strength to strength at a time when it’s pretty hard to do that, and it’s something I think can also be said of Metronomy."
Driven by an old-school hip hop beat, the danceable track shows off Pan Amsterdam's rap and trumpet skills. Mount explained: "My collaborations always start out the same way. I send out a folder of ideas, beats mainly, and see what comes back. Some artists will play around with a number of the tracks, and some will focus just on one thing that works for them. With Pan Amsterdam, it was the latter, one of those tracks that when he sent it back it was like ‘Oh wow’, it just all fell into place."
Pan Amsterdam added: "Nice Town deals with my own battles. With the internal versus the external or, intangible versus the tangible. I'm always trying to remember that tangibles may applaud my pursuit in attempting to fulfill my purpose but that my purpose is not tangible. Nor is it for my ego to be gratified. A "Town" can be a "Nice" thing to blame during these reckonings with the inner dimensions of one's self. And it's "Nice" to have a new "Town" interrupting this reckoning, and escape to."
The song arrives with two remixes alongside the original, the first by Metronomy and the another by Alain Ogue. It follows Metronomy's 2021 guest-heavy 'Posse EP Volume 1' and their 2022 album 'Small World'.
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