Music · 01 March 2025

Pavel Khvaleev’s fifth longform takes both name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic Metropolis - a vision of retro-modern grandeur, meeting expressionist dystopia, high above cloudscraping edifices and stark industrial backdrops. That, however was as so close to a hundred years ago as to make little difference. Pavel, by contrast, only began work on his ‘Metropolis’ after the release of his last two studio albums (‘Inhale’ and ‘Exhale’), back in 2021.