With a new single, 'Heartbreaker', out this week, and a new album, 'Nights Out', in the shops next week, things are about to get very busy for Metronomy again. Not that things haven't been busy for Joseph Mount since the release of his debut album, 'Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)", in 2006 - sometimes it seems like you're not a real musician these days unless he's remixed one of your tracks, with Gorillaz, Franz Ferdinand, Roots Manuva, Architecture In Helsinki, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Goldfrapp, Lykke Li, Midnight Juggernauts and many many more receiving the Metronomy rework treatment in recent times. We caught up with Joseph to ask those same six questions.
Q1 How did you start out making music?
I learned the drums at ten and got a computer at sixteen. At that age I was listening to a lot of electronica and dance music. I wanted to make my own.
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
All kinds of things really. But, the main thread is supposed to be nightlife. I moved to London when I started writing it, so it's about getting used to new things and maybe not liking them so much. I don't know really.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
It's a hard one to explain and can be very different. One way of describing it would be a bit like sketch book or something. Most of my tracks start as small little loops of ideas. Then I keep adding to them and taking bits away. After about a month there is normally a song... whether it's good or not is pot luck.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Talking Heads, Brian Eno, The Neptunes, The Ramones, The Beatles, Nirvana, Kraftwerk, The Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Jonzun Crew...
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
It's probably best to say nothing, I might just confuse them otherwise, in my normal rambling style.
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest single/album, and for the future?
That it's well received and that I have the chance to make more. I have modest ambitions at the moment. After album four I'll start shooting my mouth off about my orchestral projects and how I want to write an album in space.
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