DJ Tranter Picks His Top Six Favourite Weird/Obscure Metronomy Tracks

I’m what you’d call a Metronomy obsessive. Since the release of 2006’s Pip Paine (Pay Back The £5000 You Owe) the UK electro pop four-piece have been one of my all-time favourite bands. At points they sound like Kraftwerk producing a song with Blur and Lydia Lunch on backing vocals. I like that. Their latest album Love Letters is already my favourite of 2014.

Yeah, I was upset when a friend was asked to support them on their Australian visit but then I made his playlist so feel like a father who forces a son to make the life choices they wish they had.

Here are six more obscure tracks from Metronomy’s back catalogue that I believe are up there with their hits.

“Our Raid”

The B-side from the “Holiday” single but it could have easily been a track on Nights Out. I explain it as Metronomy doing a cutesy upbeat cover of Grauzone’s “Eisbar”. It’s the second most played song according to my iTunes but I’d actually consider it my favourite Metronomy track.

“Toxic “(cover of Britney Spears)

Rumours abound as to what this release is about. An unreleased remix, a fake cover by a fan, the band putting it on MySpace to troll fans who’d spread rumours that they were doing a remix for Britney. It’s definitely the more obscure and confusing of their tracks and at times almost sounds like a klezmer band.

“Warm Heart Of Africa” (Metronomy Remix)

This The Very Best track didn’t need a remix. A crossover of world music with indie/EDM it was already pure bliss but include the vocals of Ezra Koenig you end up with perfection. But the Metronomy remix takes a summery, cute and fun song and turns it darker but no less groovy.

“Trick Or Treatz” (Klaxons Remix)
Play this to someone and they’ll think something is wrong with your speakers. Just assure them it’s meant to sound like this and the “remix” is actually the original with the Klaxons doing vocals.

“We Are The People” (cover of Empire Of The Sun)

A cover of Empire Of The Sun that was performed on triple j’s covers segment Like A Version. The vocoder-rich track deserves an official release or even collaboration with Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele and Joseph Mount. We can only stare at our ceilings and hope/imagine.

“Matthias Gathering”

A B-side from the “My Heart Rate Rapid” single, this is the closest they have to a one hundred percent dance song. It suddenly changes pace to something you could do a Cossack dance to before transforming back to the original. This track is so obscure that no one has even uploaded it to Youtube, making it possibly the deepest Metronomy cut ever.

Matthias Gathering by Metronomy on Grooveshark

Lookout for Tranter in the crowd at one of these Metronomy shows;

July 23 in Perth at the Astor

July 25 in Melbourne at the Forum

July 26 in Byron Bay at Splendour in the Grass

July 28 in Sydney at the Metro

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