For our recurring Self-Portrait feature, we ask musicians to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is b
There’s a charming tweeness to proceedings on The English Riviera, the third album from the band Metronomy. When the record came out in 2011, critics said that the electro-pop group had summoned an aura of LA cool. In between the warm lounge keyboards and sparse yet confident production, however, there’s something distinctly, awkwardly British about the whole endeavour. The