| Metz / Metz Ii |
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| Album: | Metz Ii | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Metz | Added: | 05/2015 | |
| Label: | Sub Pop Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-05-22 | Pull Date: | 2015-07-24 |
| Week Ending: | 26 Jul | 19 Jul | 12 Jul | 28 Jun | 14 Jun | 7 Jun | 31 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 21, 2015: | Meow After Midnight Acetate | 4. | Jun 27, 2015: | What was scene? Spit You Out | |
| 2. | Jul 13, 2015: | In The Year 1000, 8000: Summer School (Session 2) Spit You Out | 5. | Jun 24, 2015: | Brownian Motion Acetate | |
| 3. | Jul 08, 2015: | ZoëRadio The Swimmer | 6. | Jun 09, 2015: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand - Guest DJ: Ala Ebtekar [SPQ08] Acetate |
| Album Review |
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| jessica rylan Reviewed 2015-05-13 | ||
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METZ - II Subpop Subpop returns to their heavier 90’s roots with this new cd from METZ. Bass-driven rock, aggressive and thick, the guitar a constant noisy wash, and impassioned sung/yelled vocals (often through distortion), and lots of amp hiss. However, the songwriting is fairly conventional rock, with plenty of melody. While METZ is following a well-trod path, and nothing new or unexpected happens, that is also their charm. The 90’s bands who sounded similar to this - Jesus Lizard, Green Magnet School, Six Finger Satellite, pretty much every band Amphetamine Reptile ever put out - are long gone. And it’s too bad, because this is a great genre! The record is a little too controlled for me, but I suspect they may be a bit sloppier (and more exciting live.) FCCs: none that I heard RIYL: Amphetamine Reptile bands, 90s “industrial rock” and/or noise rock Recommended tracks: 1*, 2*, 7, 1 Acetate - guitar line sounds like Arab on Radar. Odd time works well. Maraca drum part is unexpected treat. 2 The Swimmer - Good, driving melody on this. Hot track. 3 Spit You Out - Killer riff, melodic chorus. 4 Zzyx - filler sounds 5 I.O.U. - A bit faster. Good melody. 6. Landfill - sounds like one of the other ones. 7. Nervous System - Starts with a scream, more punk than the others. Nice. 8. Wait in Line - Not sloppy enough. 9. Eyes Peeled - pretty awesome (though short) atonal guitar solo punctuates a straight-ahead rocker 10. Kicking a can of worms - slower and dirgier, more reverb on the vocals. Like being in a tunnel. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Acetate | 6. | Landfill | |||
| 2. | The Swimmer | 7. | Nervous System | |||
| 3. | Spit You Out | 8. | Wait In Line | |||
| 4. | Zzyzx | 9. | Eyes Peeled | |||
| 5. | I.O.U. | 10. | Kicking A Can Of Worms |