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Down For You Is Up by Metropolitan
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fave it Punk | Noise
14 tracks | 35 minutes
Released Mar 2002
on Crank Automotive
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Indie noise pop rock with experimental avant overtones that pays homage to the Velvet Underground, Pavement, and Sonic Youth.
Editorial review
With their fuzzy production, sharp hooks and naive approach, Metropolitan comes across as a snottier Teenage Fanclub. The two bands have a lot in common, but most importantly they can take dissonant guitar and ugly production and craft sweet pop songs out of all the noise. Tracks like "Long Distance Dedication" have hooks that burrow deep into your brain while the band bangs away at their instruments like they were Fugazi. This yin and yang to their sound is a great mix, making the obvious Fanclub comparisons seem pretty accurate because both bands also have the ability to pull it off. The album does suffer a little from the band's need to throw wanky one-minute noise blips in between otherwise excellent songs, but that is the nature of the beast when dealing with bands like this. Like a DC hardcore band trapped in a room full of pillows, Metropolitan delivers the goods for wide-eyed pop lovers and angst-filled feedback fanatics alike. ~ Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
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.
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