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Metric - 'Synthetica'

By Gavin Haynes
 

METRIC
Synthetica

Metric Music, 2012

  • FAVORITE:

    "Synthetic"

  • Flavors:

    Cherry Coke, Pop Tarts, pleather

 
RATING:
TRACK LIST:
  1. Artificial Nocturne
  2. Youth Without Youth
  3. Speed The Collapse
  4. Breathing Underwater
  5. Dreams So Real
  6. Lost Kitten
  7. The Void
  8. Synthetica
  9. Clone
  10. The Wanderlust ft. Lou Reed
  11. Nothing But Time

The Pros And Cons Of Metric's New One

PROS

—With their synthy collision of dance and rock, Metric is like a lady-fronted early-Kasabian.
—There is a song on here, "Dreams So Real," in which Emily Haines gently skewers her own belief structures, and generally pours vinegar on everything she might have stood for that shows a wry, reflexive wit we'd not previously imagined her capable of. In that way, she is like the lady Jarvis Cocker.
—With the sharp, no frills rocky electro-glam tinge they bring to bear on their fifth record, Metric is like the Canadian lady-fronted mid-noughties Babylon Zoo.
—Lou Reed is on here. Yup, Lou Reed and Emily Haines...together...at...last...uh...

CONS

—Shirley Manson is back, so surely, the gap for angsty girl-power synthy rock has already been filled?
—Starts with the words: “I'm just as fucked up as they say, I can't fake the daytime. I found an entrance to escape into the dark...” EMO!
—Like all Metric records, this one suffers from One Really Great Track syndrome: with "Synthetica" itself, like "Monster Hospital" or "Help I'm Alive" before it, dwarfing its neighbours like a glass skyscraper nestled between rude huts.

VERDICT

Metric remain like Canada's lady-fronted version of The Dears: always pleasant, seldom essential.

By Gavin Haynes 11 months ago

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