Artist.......: Metric
Album........: Youth Without Youth
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Alternative
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: WEB
Rip.date.....: 2012-05-02
Str.date.....: 2012-05-02
Quality......: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://ilovemetric.com/
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1. Youth Without Youth 4:17
Runtime 04:17
Size 9.94
Release Notes:
Every Synthetica pre-order comes with an immediate download of "Youth Without
Youth"
Metric are a band with an eclectic, adventurous outlook, whose music encompasses
elements of synth pop, new wave, dance-rock, and electronica and whose hometown
has vacillated between Toronto, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, and London over
the course of the group's existence. Metric's story began in 1998, when
vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines met guitarist James Shaw in Toronto, Canada.
Although born in New Delhi, Haines -- the daughter Paul Haines, a
Canadian-American poet best known for his collaboration with jazz artist Carla
Bley -- had moved to town by the age of three. While studying at the Etobicoke
School of the Arts, a high school for aspiring artists in Toronto, she met
fellow students Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, future members of Stars and Broken
Social Scene. After attending university in Vancouver and Montreal, she returned
to Toronto in 1997 and eventually crossed paths with the British-born Shaw,
who'd relocated to Toronto following three years of study at the Juilliard
School of Music in New York City. Haines and Shaw discovered they were musically
simpatico and began writing songs together.
During a sojourn in Montreal, Haines and Shaw began recording demos of the
material that would become Metric's debut EP, Mainstream. After its release in
1998, the two relocated to Brooklyn, NY, and collaborated occasionally with
Torquil Campbell and Chris Seligman of the group Stars, which later included Amy
Millan. After cutting more demos using synths and a drum machine, they were
scouted by representatives of a major music publisher who flew them to London to
work with producer Stephen Hague. Haines and Shaw combined the London-recorded
tracks with material they cut in Brooklyn, and the results formed Metric's first
full-length album, Grow Up and Blow Away. In 2000, Metric returned to the United
States to sign a deal with Restless Records, but shortly before the album was
scheduled for release in 2001, Restless was bought out by Rykodisc, and under
the new ownership the Metric album went onto the back burner. Around this time,
Haines and Shaw met drummer Joules Scott-Key, a Michigan native who'd relocated
to Brooklyn after attending a music school in Texas. Scott-Key was soon invited
to join Metric, as was bassist Joshua Winstead, who had attended the same Texas
school.
Metric's members moved to Los Angeles while trying to sort out their deal with
Restless, with Haines and Shaw returning to Toronto for a spell to work with
their old friends Amy Millan and Kevin Drew in the group Broken Social Scene.
Once they reconvened in L.A. and began working with their new rhythm section,
Metric decided that the pop-oriented, electronic sound of Grow Up and Blow Away
was no longer representative of their music. Metric subsequently parted ways
with Restless and took the masters for Grow Up with them. In the fall of 2003,
the Canadian independent label Everloving Records (later re-baptized Everloving)
released Metric's second "debut" album, Old World Underground, Where Are You
Now? The album, which was also picked up by Last Gang Records, became a major
critical and commercial success, especially in the band's native Canada. It was
followed in 2005 by Live It Out, another successful release, and the group
embarked on a lengthy international tour before taking a hiatus.
During the break, Haines went on an extended vacation in Argentina and made
guest appearances on albums by the Stills and Jason Collett, in addition to
releasing two records with her solo project Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton.
Scott-Key and Winstead moved to Oakland, CA, and formed the band Bang Lime. Shaw
headed back to Toronto and opened a recording facility, Giant Studio. A revised
edition of Grow Up and Blow Away received a belated release in 2007, and Metric
regrouped one year later, after Haines decided she'd had enough of the downbeat
music she'd composed with the Soft Skeleton. Now based in Toronto once again,
the group began working on a new album, Fantasies, which was self-released
internationally in April 2009 following a drawn-out negotiation with Last Gang
Records, who agreed to release the band from its roster. Fantasies became the
group's most successful album to date, selling 250,000 albums in less than a
year, going platinum in Canada, and spawning a Top 20 single on the American
rock charts without the benefit of a label.