Metz - Atlas Vending Artist_Mad Professor

Metz - Atlas Vending Artist_Mad ProfessorWhile past METZ albums thrived on an abrasive relentlessness, the trio embarked on Atlas Vending with the goal to make a more patient and honest recordsomething that invited repeated listens rather than a few exhilarating bludgeonings. Its as if the band realized they were in it for the long haul, and their music could serve as a constant as they navigated lifes trials and tribulations. The result is a record that sounds massive, articulate, and

and Masahiko Togashi

Overdubs were done back in Paris

Touring is often the final piece of the puzzle that is an album campaign – the part you fixate on alone in a room

for a series of concerts in five European cities between 2015 and 2018

new beginnings and self-healing

The album’s nine tracks of groove-based intricacies

literary lyrics and melancholy orchestrations and were a different breed as both the British indie scene and the Brit-Pop sound dominated the UK charts

she started being referred to as an artist in which “music has taken human form”

at others deconstructed via an early Texas Instruments computer

calm resistance

there’s Greek producer Dim Zach who doffs a cap to Imagination on the synth-heavy ‘Innocence’

looking dance floor sound