Metric - Fantasies
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Artist: MetricEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Metric Music International
Free Music Notes for Fantasies
Free Music Review: I Have A Fantasy: Me + Emily Haines
Hit: 5 Stars
Hailing from the same music scene in Toronto that produced artists such as Feist (And the supergroup Broken Social Scene, which they were a part of), Emily Haines and her group Metric have been trekking through the globe for the past ten years, becoming a darling of the Toronto music and indie scene in the process. With "Fantasies" however, the group seems to be moving towards the ever-more creative Alternative Rock genre. The result is "Fantasies." Will it be another stuffy indie/hipster album, or has Metric finally carved a true place on the rock of creative genius?
Highlights Include:
Help I'm Alive
Sick Muse
Gold, Guns, Girls
Stadium Love
The highlight is without a doubt the song that gave a true voice to the album, "Help, I'm Alive." Despite it's rather dark title, the song comes storming out of the gate with some killer chords, the song proceeds to build itself up, deconstruct itself, then build itself until it eventually explodes in a flurry of Alternative Rock glory. "My heart keeps beating like a hammer. Beating like a hammer! BEATING LIKE A HAMMER!" If that isn't what one of the top songs of 2009, I don't know what is. It has has so many layers, yet it is so simple. And it's all capped off with pitch-perfect vocals. It could use a bit of screaming towards the end, but hey, that's just me.
The album works best when listened to as one product, and few songs can quite make the jump to radio single status. In fact, when I first got the album, I was skeptical of it since I felt that a few of the songs didn't quite work. But put in its context of the rest of the album, they all work just fine. Another thing that surprised me was the great lyrical work, and it plays perfectly in the atmospheric war that's going on within the album. At times, there's a dark sense of foreboding, but in the same song, there's unabashed optimism. It's this musical mix of light and dark that really makes the album.
In fact, if there was a criticism I could lob at the album, it would be fact that some songs carry on sort of needlessly. As a result, some of the songs, even the good ones, feel a lot longer than they actually are.
Overall, if you were a fan of 'Help I'm Alive,' then you should enjoy the album on the whole. If you're a fan of indie rock or alt rock, you're bound to find something you like as well. Metric really brings their A-game with this album, and to my surprise, it's quite good. One of the best of the year thus far? It's certainly in the discussion...
Note: If you got the bonus tracks, then you'd have gotten 'Waves,' a rather upbeat tune that really fits with the rest of the album, and boasts a rather energetic chorus. You'll also get 'Gimme Sympathy,' which is translated very well to acoustic form, and 'Help I'm Alive,' which is less successful in its toned down form.
Fantasies Poster
Metric is a four piece band formed in NYC that has been based at various times in Toronto, Montreal, LA, andLondon. Their fourth full length studio
album FANTASIES is a much anticipated
follow up to 2005's highly acclaimed LIVE IT OUT. FANTASIES was written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle, and by frontwoman Emily
Haines in exile in Argentina. The album was recorded at guitarist Jimmy Shaw's own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at Electric Lady in NYC by Grammy winner John O'Mahony (Coldplay, The Strokes). A densely textured modern mix of psychedlia, electro and rock, this album s dream like quality stays true to the band s aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory. On standout track ''Gimme Sympathy'', when sharp-tongued Haines invokes the age-old existential dilemma - ''Who would you rather be: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones'' - it s because she already knows her answer: neither.
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