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MUSIC NEWS - Canadian/NYC new wavers, METRIC come back on April 14 with new music, an album called FANTASIES , the follow up to their 2005 highly acclaimed Live It Out (buy cd here ). Written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle and by frontwoman Emily Haines while on a soul-cleansing sojourn to Argentina, Fantasies is a densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro, and rock with a "really big and really dreamy" sound, says guitarist/co-founder Jimmy Shaw. Haines adds, "For me, the major influences on the record [...]