Metronomy

Add Date: July 5 

Artist: Metronomy 

Album: The English Riviera 

Label: Big Beat/Because Music 

Genre: Indie pop, electropop 

Comments: They wear pre-synced, Iron Man-like chest lights during live shows. They've toured with British luminaries such as Kate Nash, Klaxons, and Bloc Party. And they happen to have had the illustrious honor of having the music video for "A Thing for Me" selected as the free iTunes download of the week. It's easy to see, then, why the Brighton band Metronomy is such a hit with audiences. Delivering their most gratifying album to date, The English Riviera is one of those British eclectic electronic albums that is addictive, what with its "late-'90s indie-pop aesthetics" and "deliberately danceable yet contemplative arrangements". An album meant for the "repeat" button during those glossy summer beach outings, Metronomy delivers with their third studio dalliance into falsetto-laden, brilliant pop.

If you're a fan of Friendly Fires and/or Cut Copy, try out tracks 4, 5, 7 and 9.