This Real
Metropolitan
Performed By
Metropolitan
Album UPC
643859944028
CD Baby Track ID
224625
Label
Crank Automotive
Released
2002-01-01
BPM
135
Rated
0
ISRC
ushm20449563
Year
2002
Spotify Plays
39
Writers
Writer
John A Masters
Pub Co
Excess Writer Clearance
Composer
John A Masters
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - Washington DC
Description
Indie noise pop rock with experimental avant overtones that pays homage to the Velvet Underground, Pavement, and Sonic Youth.
Notes
Hurtling forward from the rough-but-beautiful streets of the Washington DC metropolia are the equally raw-but-harmonious sounds of Metropolitan, wrestled to perfection on their second full-length recording, "Down For You Is Up." The follow-up to 1999's "Side Effects" finds the band in revitalized trio mode, connecting the dots between the fiery, T.Moore-esque guitar work of John Masters, the fluidly unpredictable bass tones of Shyam Telikicherla, and the bounding drum-slaps of kit-master Saadat Awan. Hypnotically mixing curving hooks, sliding chords, untamed basement-jam energy, and tightrope-walking precision, "Down For You Is Up" is a mesmerizing mind-trip through tunnels previously carved by master-diggers like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Pavement, and Yo La Tengo.
Recorded in the hallowed chambers of Inner Ear Studios, where the walls are papered with the classic albums forged there by legends like Fugazi, Half Japanese, and the Nation of Ulysses, "Down For You Is Up" shakes with the echoes of history's best melodic fuzz, darting quickly from the thick hookery of "Westmoreland," to the tabla-rain of "Girl from Montpelier," to the raw riff-stomp of "You Want It," to the tumbling bounce of "Wet Cigarette." Every head-infesting tune here is bursting with off-hand melodies, up-down percussions, and homemade sound-sketches, all wrapped in a bracing sonic envelope courtesy of primo producer Chad Clark (Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, Beauty Pill).
Recorded in the hallowed chambers of Inner Ear Studios, where the walls are papered with the classic albums forged there by legends like Fugazi, Half Japanese, and the Nation of Ulysses, "Down For You Is Up" shakes with the echoes of history's best melodic fuzz, darting quickly from the thick hookery of "Westmoreland," to the tabla-rain of "Girl from Montpelier," to the raw riff-stomp of "You Want It," to the tumbling bounce of "Wet Cigarette." Every head-infesting tune here is bursting with off-hand melodies, up-down percussions, and homemade sound-sketches, all wrapped in a bracing sonic envelope courtesy of primo producer Chad Clark (Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, Beauty Pill).
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