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Photo by Kathryn Yu You can count on Metric lead singer Emily Haines to mix the most emo shit you've seen/heard in your life (see: her quite good and quite hushed solo album, a new "behind the music"-style video about Metric's upcoming album) with some real rock-star panache (see: opening for the Rolling Stones, her gold lamé outfit at last year's All Points West). Haines and her Metric mates are going for more tender-but-tough new wave heights with a new LP, Fantasies.The 10-song album is out April 14 on Last Gang in Canada and Arts&Crafts in Mexico, and will be self-released throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Super fans who pre-order the record starting March 2 at the band's official site will be rewarded with ever-tempting "bonus materials" and an MP3 of first single "Help, I'm Alive," which is also streaming on Metric's MySpace now. "Hard to be soft, tough to be tender," sings Haines on the song; so many contradictions, so little time. Will the Canadian foursome finally capture their borderline-dangerous live energy on record? We'll be listening...and waiting for the inevitable spring/summer tour announcement. read more
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Metric: stream new album 'Synthetica' ahead of official release - audio
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Metric: Stream Metric Synthetica
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Metric’s new record, Synthetica — their first since 2009′s Fantasies — has gotten a lot of attention lately, thanks to strong lead singles like “Youth Without Youth” and “Speed The Collapse” as well as our Q&A with Metric’s Emily Haines for Progres...
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Metric: – “Speed The Collapse”
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Since Metric announced the details to Synthetica, we’ve consumed anthemic first single “Youth Without Youth.” Now, they’ve dropped the second single from the June release, a pummeling, uptempo song swimming in a Radiohead-esque texture. Stream it below. Synthetica is out 6/12 Metric Music International/Mom...
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Metric: Progress Report: Metric
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Name: Metric Progress Report: Emily Haines talks about the making of Synthetica. Since releasing their first album back in 2003, Metric has proven itself to be the little band that could. Even though the band might have suffered a slight identity crisis with U.S. audiences early on (due, perhaps, to the fact that frontwoman Emily [...]
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Metric: Watch Metric Play “Youth Without Youth” Acoustic
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Last month, Canadian indie-poppers Metric debuted their stomping new single “Youth Without Youth,” a song about a generation drowning in debt. And now Rolling Stone has posted a video of the band’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw doing an acoustic-plus-drum-machine version of the song, which translates nicely. Watch the...
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