Taking to Instagram, Pitchfork announced on the 31^st May that British jazz quintet Ezra Collective will be opening the festival at the iconic Albert Hall on the 7^th November. Listen to their track with Loyle Carter “What Am I to Do?” below:

In addition, Japanese Ichiko Aboba and Cameroonian-American multi-instrumentalist Vagabon will now be supporting Weyes Blood for the closing show on the 13^th November at the Eventim Apollo.

Japanese pop band CHAI will also be performing at the renovated warehouse club Village Underground on the 10^th November. American poet and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson will be performing at Kings Place the following evening. Watch the video for CHAI’s song “Donuts Mind If I Do” below:

This year’s event will be run from the 7^th – 13^th November in various venues across the city including The Barbican, EartH, Hackney Church, KOKO, and The Roundhouse. In April, Pitchfork announced the first wave of artists performing at the festival including Crumb, Ryoji Ikeda, Porridge Radio, Sorry, Wednesday, MAVI & MIKE, Sleater-Kinney, U.S. Girls, Yaeji, yuné pinku, Youth Wagoon, and a headlining set from Weyes Blood closing the festival.

Tickets to the festival are sold individually for each event. For more information and to purchase tickets see here.

As well as in London, Pitchfork Music Festival will be hosted in Berlin and Paris this year. The Berlin edition of the festival will be held from the 1^st – 5^th November and take place in venues such as Zenner, Betonhalle at silent green, Kulturquartier, Astra Kulturhaus, and Festsaal Kreuzberg. The line-up includes sets from CHAI, Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood, MAVI, MIKE, yunè pinku, Porridge Radio, and Annahstasia. For the complete line-up see the poster below.

Pitchfork Music Festival will then take place in Paris a day after the Berlin festival comes to a close and run from the 6^th – 12^th November. Held in venues such as Trabendo, Eglise Saint-Eustache, La Place, Petit Bain, the line-up will include Crumb, Dream Wife, Ichiko Aboba, Kara Jackson, Weyes Blood, and Youth Lagoon. For the complete line-up see the poster below.

This is the third year the Pitchfork Music Festival has been held in London. In previous years George Clanton, Injury Reserve, Faye Webster, Animal Collective, Courtney Barnett, Cate Le Bon, Stereolab, Black Midi, and Metronomy have played to audiences around London courtesy of the festival.

Les gars! We’re going to be playing a one-off show at @FondationLV for @pitchforkparis on Monday 22 November and we’d very much like for you to come along. Tickets are available to purchase TOMORROW MORNING from 11am French time!! https://t.co/chvzzMcKAC pic.twitter.com/mcI7SHe5IU

— Metronomy (@metronomy) November 9, 2021

The band, which was founded by lead member Joseph Mount, started out in 1999, with Mount making music in his bedroom, before expanding his act into the group it is today. The other members include Michael Lovett (on keyboards and guitar), Olugbenga Adelekan (on bass guitar and vocals), Anna Prior (on drums and vocals), and Mount’s cousin Oscar Cash (on saxophone, guitars and keyboards).

The announcement seems to be one of many signs indicating increased activity for the group, ever since postponing their Metronomy Forever European tour dates due to the pandemic. Since then, the band have released a new EP, September’s Posse EP Volume 1, which saw them collaborating with artists such as Irish singer Biig Piig, rapper Brian Nasty, and the Indie band Folly Group.

They have also released a music video for their new single, “It’s Good to Be Back”. Mount describes it as simply being ‘all about how good it is to be back’. The video, which was directed by Dreamjob duo Jack Whiteley and Joe Wills, shows the band playing about in a woodland setting. Rolling Stone magazine reports it as showing ‘the band members living out a Groundhog Day scenario of dying and then living the same thing over and over’. It comes from their soon-to-be-released new album, Small World, which is due on February 18^th. It will be the band’s seventh album, following up 2019’s well-received Metronomy Forever. For fans ever more eager to see the band play, tomorrow (November 11^th) they are due to play a live-streamed event at London’s Colour Factory, which is available through tickets only. The band call it ‘an album launch show’, saying ‘we’re gonna be playing loads of great new songs, loads of great old songs, we’re gonna be dressed to impress, and we’re gonna be having the time of our lives’.

Live stream tickets for our new album launch show are on sale NOW. Grab yours to get access to an exclusive interview with ME plus to get your hands on some exclusive merch https://t.co/UhHGSVPvIg pic.twitter.com/9YwiFLsyiO — Metronomy (@metronomy) November 5, 2021

And if that’s not enough, they are also scheduled for a tour across the continent next March to April and will be seen in the UK from April till May 2022. Details of their touring schedule can be seen here. The tracklist for the new album can be seen below. You can pre-order the album here.

1. Life and Death
2. Things will be fine
3. It’s good to be back
4. Loneliness on the run
5. Love Factory
6. I lost my mind
7. Right on time
8. Hold me tonight
9. I have seen enough