Blog: When The Gramophone Rings

"Their fans will stand by them ‘till the death, but this album missed the bull’s eye by a small margin..." Metric | Synthetica To put it bluntly, Metric’s fifth album, Synthetica , sounds like the type of album that is produced mainly for one sole purpose: commercialisation. Their music has always been consistently solid  ̶  the songs from their second album, Live It Out , do well to support the idea that Metric has the potential to make very good music with interesting lyrics  ̶  and Emily Haines, the lead singer, is [...]