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Earlier today, Metric announced the details for their new album Synthetica. It’s out in June, and there’s all sorts of teasers and Internet-friendly curios regarding Synthetica at their website. It’s mixed by John O’Mahoney (Coldplay, the Cribs). Scope tour dates, the track list and a bonus cover of Tom Waits’ “Strange Weather” below. (via 24 [...]
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Metric: stream new album 'Synthetica' ahead of official release - audio
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The album features guest backing vocals from Lou Reed
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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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