Joseph Mount of METRONOMY

This album seemed relevant because of my new record, and me thinking about the kind of stuff that was released when I was a teenager and impressionable.

To set the scene, it came out in the first year of secondary school. I’d been playing drums for a couple of years and I was where they would show nostalgia, not my nostalgia but somebody else’s, and you would find out a lot of old music that way. At the end of each program they would show a new music video and I remember seeing stuff like PJ Harvey’s “Down By the Water,” and “Basket Case” by Green Day—it was always quite an interesting choice. And one week they had “Buddy Holly” by Weezer and I remember being completely blown away by it. It was referencing and I had a mental confusion about , I thought it was filmed in the ’50s, I couldn’t understand. And then to see a band playing super contemporary alt-rock referencing , I just found it super exciting.