Metz - II LP

Metz - II LP

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Metz have all the telltale signs of an early-90s nostalgia band. They play blistering Touch And Go-indebted punk rock; they’ve got a frontman who wears glasses and ripped jeans and screams his head off like a young Steve Albini and a drummer who pounds the kit and flails his hair like a young Dave Grohl; they write misanthropic songs about "rats" and "landfills" and "nausea".  

And yet to their massive credit, the Toronto three-piece has managed to be much more than that. Metz are no museum piece or paean to the glory days of 1991. Somehow, despite the time-stamped familiarity of the band’s ingredients, the finished product sounds urgent, necessary, even a little dangerous.

The reasons why are frustratingly simple: execution and conviction. Metz play brutally efficient, art-damaged rock & roll that never bobs or weaves when it isn’t supposed to. And they do it without blinking. There’s nothing knowing about their music – no references to decode or allusions to suss out, no laughs at your expense – just volume and velocity in hardy portions. And grit." - John S.W. MacDonald / The Quietus