Mother Mother just can't settle on a sound. This isn't a bad thing; they've spanned pretty much every iteration of 'indie-pop' you can imagine without mixing, say, black metal into it (although that would probably be required listening). On The Sticks , the band sticks to what they know, and what they know is variety achieved by sheer willpower. The band's fourth album finds them testing their own ability to create a cohesive sound by destroying the idea that cohesion is something to be strived for. They almost succeed, pulling off exhilarating sonic [...]
Verse Metrics , a Glaswegian quartet, have released their moody EP, Radians today. A five-song EP, it traverses indie post-punk well with clacking rhythms and slow guitar melodies that feel like Interpol threw them out for the bums to fight over. Now, Verse Metrics does this with some class - don't let me call them bums. They shine in certain spots, where in others, they just sound like Mogwai b-sides. The guitar-only bit that builds in "Aches" is incendiary, and you can download the single from their [...]
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Last week we bought your our review of Radians, the new EP from Scottish rocksters Verse Metrics. Within said review we praised the " expansive, atmospheric five tracks " and declared the EP as " the work of a band that ask for your full and undivided emotional attention." Well, now you no longer have to take our word for it as we're very pleased to bring you an exclusive stream of the EP in full here on GFP. It's only going to be available until 5pm tomorrow, so [...]
Radians by Verse Metrics Words by Dan Carson Scottish music is without doubt the deviant, troubled child in the Home Nations family; the one that gets high, doesn’t call home and tells mum to piss off in the morning. From Primal Scream to The Twilight Sad; they’ve all stayed true to themselves and made emotionally raw, often self-destructive but always poignant and beautiful records. That balance is the key because Scottish music thrives on intelligent angst. Glasgow four piece Verse Metrics release their new EP [...]
Metric went big last time around. Fantasies , the band’s fourth album, was “all about pushing [ Metric ] out into the world”, in the words of lead singer Emily Haines , and boy did it succeed in that respect: the glossy, unashamedly poppy album garnered commercial success that matched its critical acclaim, despite not being released on a label, and the band even picked up a couple of Juno awards and some spots on a few movie soundtracks off the back of it. Metric show no [...]
‘I’m just as fucked up as they say,’ croons Emily Haines , the star behind Canadian powerhouse METRIC . This is the opening line to their song ‘Artifical Nocturne’ track one on their new album, Synthetica : a glorious piece of electro-pop gorgeousness. Here we are, staring down the barrel of the gun at this follow-up to the impressive 2009 release, Fantasies . That album had be dancing around on school buses; senior students don’t even give a fuck. After a witch-hunt/ huge online game of hide-and-seek for a [...]
Metric quietly posted their new album, "Synthetica" , to their Soundcloud late last week, but now they've offered up the album to the world at large. A bit peppier than "Fantasies" , Metric 's sound keeps growing more refined, Emily's voice more broad and interesting. Be sure to check out track 10, "The Wanderlust" , a pretty fantastic collaboration with Lou Reed . "Synthetica" is due June 14th on Metric Music International (awesome to see them releasing music on [...]
One week prior to the U.S. release of Synthetica (MMI/MOM+POP), Metric has shared a full embeddable stream of Synthetica via SoundCloud. Its unveiling comes on the heels of Synthetica Hide+Seek, an interactive scavenger hunt last week in which Metric fans collaborated to unlock an early stream of the album. Metric has also confirmed three intimate fans-only shows to take place in the wake of Synthetica's release. Tickets for the private underplays-June 13 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in New ...
Today Metric launches Synthetica Hide+Seek, an interactive scavenger hunt that allows fans to unlock a stream of the band's fifth, full-length studio album, Synthetica (MMI/MOM+POP), up to two weeks prior to the album's US release on June 12th. The game, which asks fans to gather a series of images and keywords to unlock the early stream, begins at SyntheticaHideAndSeek.ilovemet ric.com . These clues might appear anywhere and everywhere along the information super highway - from your favorite music blog to your ...
Listen to "Speed The Collapse" , the second single off Metric 's "Synthetica" which is out June 12 via their own Metric Music International . After having given us last month the glam-rock-y and anthemic "Youth Without Youth" as the lead single off their upcoming fifth studio album, "Synthetica" , Metric have just given us a second glimpse at their June 12 release. The second single is "Speed The Collapse" , which is gloomier in its [...]
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by teepoo Here's a another new song off Metric's album Synthetica out June 12th . This one sounds kind of classic Metric with a new almost poppier twist.
The newest offering from Metric is the extremely up-tempo and energetic "Speed The Collapse", a brand new song from their forthcoming fifth studio album. Synthetica , out on June 12th through their own Metric Music International alongside Mom + Pop, will contain 11 songs and an additional 5 "Reflections" if pre-ordered on iTunes . Metric also recently worked with composer Howard Shore to score David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and if all goes according to plan, that soundtrack will be released just a little before Synthetica is. For now, at least, you can [...]
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Ayer por la noche me tope con una fotografia del set de grabacion del nuevo video de Metric perteneciente a " Youth Without Youth " y al ver a Emily Haines dentro de un ambiente un tanto goth, comence a pensar que tal vez solo se trataba de una mala broma con motivo del World Goth Day pero no, al parecer tambien esta estetica ya ha llegado a ellos pero mejor, no nos adelantemos a nada hasta que podamos ver el video de este primer sencillo de "Synthetica" el cual hasta le fecha la verdad sigue sin convenserme. [...]
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by teepoo Metric's fifth album Synthetica will be released on June 12th . Check out a new track Young Without Youth . It's a bit industrial sounding, but I kind of like it. Maybe they are experimenting with different sounds as their last release Fantasies wasn't the most memorable thing in the world.
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by teepoo Metric's fifth album Synthetica will be released on June 12th . Check out a new track Youth Without Youth . It's a bit industrial sounding, but I kind of like it. Maybe they are experimenting with different sounds as their last release Fantasies wasn't the most memorable thing in the world.
For the past week, Metric has been sharing clues with fans about "Youth Without Youth," the band's first single from the forthcoming album, Synthetica (MMI/Mom+Pop). We've seen mysterious video footage from the recording studio, heard Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw speak on the making of the song, and even saw fan interpretations of "Youth Without Youth" after the song's lyrics and sheet music were unveiled and before the song's release (relive the experience at www.ilovemetric.com/youthwitho utyouth ). Today, "Youth Without Youth" ...
Listen to "Youth Without Youth" , Metric 's first single off their upcoming album "Synthetica" , due out June 12 via their own Metric Music International . Metric is set to release their fifth studio album "Synthetica" in a bit over a month, but they've just released "Youth Without Youth" , their first single off that forthcoming production. Emily Haines ' vocals are still there doing what they usually do, and their electronica/disco influences are intact, but this time [...]
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A veces me pregunto si Metric sigue siendo lo suficientemente relevante como lo era en sus primeros tres albums de estudio y aunque pareciera que en algunos puntos del mundo algo nuevo de ellos pasa sin pena ni gloria, en México es una banda bastante queria e incluso su primer show de 2012 lo dieron en nuestro pais y pues por lo que se dice, parece que les fue bastante bien aunque siempre hay otro tipo de comentarios que me hacen dudar sobre quien tiene la razon?. Pero bueno, lo que si es que este año estaran editando un nuevo [...]
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