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Fantasies (CD)

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Metric Artist Snapshot:

One of the many offshoots of the Toronto-based Broken Social Scene collective, Metric is a muscular blend of early-21st-century indie-rock, and pastel-shaded new wave. Fronted by keyboardist-singer Emily Haines, the band, which debuted in 2003, has a winning way with synth-driven pop hooks, best evidenced on its second album, LIVE IT OUT, which garnered a domestic gold album on its 2005 release.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Fantasies (CD) Album By Metric (Artist)
1   Help I'M Alive  
2   Sick Muse  
3   Satellite Mind  
4   Twilight Galaxy  
5   Gold Guns Girls  
6   Gimme Sympathy  
7   Collect Call  
8   Front Row  
9   Blindness  
10   Stadium Love  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Emily Haines delivers big refrains and spiky hooks, cooing about love on 'Sick Muse' and going dark on 'Help I'm Alive'..."
Spin (p.80) - "Ever the empathizer, Haines calmly untangles her characters' despair, whether it's over the quietly pulsing 'Collect Call' or the driving electro rock of 'Satellite Mind.'"
Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "[Metric] amp up the melodies on their fourth album, tapping synthed-out industrial beats to vent their frustrations about the state of modern affairs." -- Grade: B+
Alternative Press (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "FANTASIES flows seamlessly from song to engaging song....It's a layering of everything Metric have created in the past with a sense of immediate passion."
Q (Magazine) (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's an accomplished act of reconfiguration, brimful of potential singles, chiefly the tub-thumping 'Stadium Love' and 'Gimme Sympathy'..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]here is a dreamy quality here that eschews the vague, easy rhymes and lyrical polemics of past Metric records in favor of romance and sex."

Title Note

Four years after Canadian dance-rock quartet Metric went on hold so that singer Emily Haines could explore a more reflective solo career with 2007's outstanding KNIVES DON'T HAVE YOUR BACK, the group returns with their fourth album. FANTASIES sounds like a skillful melding of the nervy dance punk of previous albums like OLD WORLD UNDERGROUND WHERE ARE YOU NOW with the maturity and lyrical depth of Haines's solo work. The first single "Gimme Sympathy" asks the musical question "Would you rather be the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?," but the elegant, tuneful danceability of FANTASIES sounds like Metric have their eyes set on becoming the new Roxy Music

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5 out of 5 stars Who would you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?, April 15, 2009
By romanticrights
The album is so full of YES it makes me so happy. This is the album Metric should have released instead of Live it Out. With amazing songs like Help, Im Alive, Gimme Sympathy, Satellite Mind, and Stadium Love and two beautiful acoustic renditions, this is definitely a solid, play on your ipod a million times a day kind of album! Trust me, its worth buying.

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