Track Listing
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
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Music Canada | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
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
Editorial Reviews
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.'
Spin
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.
Alternative Press
[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+
Entertainment Weekly
[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.
Pitchfork
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'...
Rolling Stone
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'...
Q
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [The album] adds brawn, finesse and grandeur to their new-wave drive and Morse-code guitar scrapes...
Blender
[T]he Canadian quartet continues to polish its spacey, new wave-colored sound that's heavy with buzzing synths and echoed vocals.
Billboard
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