MGMT have remixed Metronomy’s calling-card single “The Look” as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for its parent album, The English Riviera. Check it out below. The album is being reissued with six previously unreleased songs from the era; the new version’s out April 30 via Because. Metronomy recently announced a string of European tour dates for this time next year.
Reflecting on “The Look,” Metronomy’s Joe Mount said in a press release:
I 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.
Last year, MGMT remixed another luminary of British indie-pop—check out their remix of Django Django’s “Spirals.”
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