In over a decade, Metric has gone from being a casual
collaboration between Emily Haines and James Shaw, to one of Canada’s most
successful indie rock outfits. The band’s most recent record, 2009’s Fantasies, earned a Polaris Prize
nomination, and went platinum in Canada. Today Metric has announced the June
12 release of their fifth full-length, Synthetica.
“We’ve always had a sound in our heads
that we hoped to realize,” says exceedingly attractive frontwoman
Emily Haines, “and we finally heard it coming back out of the speakers this
time.”
Haines continues: “SYNTHETICA is about insomnia, fucking up,
fashion, all the devices and gadgets attached to our brains, getting wasted,
watching people die in other countries, watching people die in your own
country, dancing your ass off, questioning the cops, poetic
justice, standing up for yourself, sex, the
apocalypse, doing some stupid shit and totally regretting it but then
telling everyone it made you stronger, leaving town as a solution to
unsolvable problems, owning your actions and owning your time.”
Below you can hear “Grow Up and Blow
Away,” from the first album Metric recorded (though its release was delayed for
about six years), and watch the video for Fantasies
singly “Gimme Sympathy.”
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- Toronto Furniture Store Selling Feist, Metric Rugs
- Metric — “Gold Guns Girls”
- Metric — “Sick Muse”
- Metric — Fantasies
- Metric To Fantasize Earlier
