Nights Out by Metronomy

Nights Out, Metronomy's second studio album, came out on Because Music on 8 September 2008, and Joseph Mount has described its starting point as a half-hearted concept record about heading out on the town and having a miserable time. That's the joke and the heart of it: twitchy, bleeping electro-pop about disappointing evenings, drum machines ticking away like a taxi meter while the synth lines curl into something oddly melancholy.

Mount wrote and recorded most of it alone, but Oscar Cash and Gabriel Stebbing played parts on a couple of tracks, and he has said that this was when Metronomy stopped being just him and became a band. Philip Castle, the airbrush artist, made the cover, though the commercial pressing had a misprint that left it reading simply "Nights". It kept selling, too: in 2012 IMPALA gave it a double silver award for selling more than 40,000 copies across Europe.

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