Metronomy's Joe Mount on new album: 'I’m trying to be as poppy as I can be'

The musical output of Metronomy has always had a prominent sense of place: the bedroom recordings of the band’s humble beginnings; the ode to Devon that was 2011’s The English Riviera and 2014’s Love Letters, recorded at London’s Toe Rag studios, selected by Joe Mount, the creative force behind the band, because of its primitive, analogue recording set-up. For this interview I find myself in a recording studio in Bredbury, a suburban town in Stockport, where Mount is putting the finishi...

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