The Metronomad is a Singer-Songwriter based in Edmonton, Alberta. Influenced by such diverse, creative forces as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and Muse, he also has a deep connection to his family’s cultural roots in Pakistan. The Metronomad’s first passion: living and breathing its language every single day, he seeks to be a messenger for its powerful force, connecting people with each other, with ideas, reality and states of being, as well as inspiring us to heights of emotions both high and low.
The single ‘He’s Got a Gun’, is beautiful, desperate, hopeless, hopeful, and constantly searching for the truth. It reaches into your heart and holds it from beginning to end- whatever your point of view may be on the powerful theme at hand.
The Metronomad is deceptively uncomplicated in his musical approach which contains what seem to be straightforward lyrics or a simple story-line, but it’s not that simple. Reach deeper into the track, do a little more research.
Yes it’s about police brutality, but it goes beyond, it poses questions, it makes you ponder about what makes one person commit such atrocities on another person, seemingly without reason. Songs like this are introspectively genius, and not mere descriptions of events.
Outside of the incredible lyrical beauty is a solid production job too. It’s been said that music is a combination of sounds and silences; in ‘He’s Got a Gun’ both are treated with equal importance, and is what gives this song it’s incredibly edgy moments of tension.
The Metronomad encompasses everything I love about music. He makes incredible ear opening sounds that just amaze, the production is deep and slightly retro in its almost psychedelic awash, and above all he says something without saying ‘look at me!’
His music goes completely over the edge of boundaries, with visions great and far reaching. The Metronomad could be likened to a musical conceptualist, one that will always draw peoples’ attention and interest towards his craft for two major reasons – simplicity and honesty.
Both vocally and lyrically, The Metronomad movingly reflects the tension between humanity as well as the depression and alienation of post-modern society.
And finally, the texture of the sound and the atmosphere of the music – at first slow and imploring and then filled with crunchy screaming guitars which develop into an explosion of sound – is almost a philosophical expression on its own. In fairness, there is too much truth buried in this recording to describe in a silly review.
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