Metro Music by Martha and the Muffins

Metro Music, the debut album from Toronto new wavers Martha and the Muffins, was the very first album Dindisc ever released, and it carries the one song that took them around the world: "Echo Beach". Mike Howlett produced, and the record is all nervy guitar, cool keyboards and wide-eyed hooks, pop that sounds like it was built in a rehearsal room with the windows open.

Even the sleeve is a hometown valentine: Peter Saville designed it as a map of Toronto, drawn from Canada's National Topographic System. "Echo Beach" stayed their only major international hit under that name, though they kept scoring at home and later charted as M + M, and the whole of Metro Music was folded into the 1987 compilation Far Away in Time.

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