From the opening lines of "Twilight Galaxy," Emily Haines makes it clear that no one has the power to tell her what to do or how to do it. Ever since
Metric recorded
Grow Up and Blow Away in their home studio in London in the late nineties, they've stood out from the multitudes of dance-pop bands with punky overtones and female vocalists. Although those earlier songs had a self-described innocence, they also had the confidence and lack of pretension of a band determined to do things on their own terms, in their own way, rather than to accommodate a preordained image.
Three albums later,
Fantasies remains fiercely independent, and their ever-growing fan base is overwhelmingly supportive. Whether Haines is singing about the absurdity of polarizing a musical landscape into Beatles vs Rolling Stones in the delightfully iconoclastic "Gimme Sympathy," or answering our interview questions entirely in emphatic capitals, the message is unmistakable: They are Metric (hear them roar) and they are living it out.
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