Metronomy have gone to the woods for their latest video. “The Upsetter” delivers an isolated, melancholic, deeply visual experience that plays to the themes contained within their new album.
With the release of their latest record, Love Letters, Metronomy have gone a little more internal and a little more pared-down than in previous efforts. Chief vocalist and songwriter Joe Mount explores newer themes of isolation and loneliness in “The Upsetter,” and those themes are deeply explored in the video for the same single. It focuses on a rather androgynous-looking individual who appears to be alone on a deserted island. Perhaps feeling too lonely too often, the deserter begins for form a companion from the earth and forest which eventually comes to life. Together, the two companions eventually allow themselves to be be absorbed into a river in the forest.
The visual spectacle of the video plays along nicely with the sound of the record: it’s a sparse, isolated, lonely video, and one truly feels for the person in the video who has become so needy for companionship that that person has to resort to culling a companion from the world around that person. Love Letters released in March earlier this year. They have also released a video for the title track off the record earlier this year in addition to the video for “The Upsetter.”
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