Artist.......: Metric
Album........: Fantasies (Bonus CD)
Label........: Metric Music Int.
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: MET80072
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-05-28
Str.date.....: 2010-00-00
Quality......: 200kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.ilovemetric.com/
track title time
1. Waves 3:05
2. The Gates 3:08
3. Help I'm Alive (Acoustic) 4:50
4. Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic) 3:27
5. Sick Muse (Acoustic) 4:46
6. Sick Muse (Adam Freeland Remix) 6:03
7. Gimme Sympathy (Adam Freeland Remix) 5:50
8. Help I'm Alive (Twelves Remix) 4:23
9. Nobody Home 3:14
10. Sugar Mountain 5:31
Runtime 44:17
Size 63.98
Release Notes:
Retail Release...
Metric are a band who have embraced an eclectic and
adventurous outlook -- the group's music encompasses
elements of synth pop, new wave, dance rock, and
electronic, while the group has collectively been based in
Toronto, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, and London over
the course of their existence. Metric's story began when
vocalist and keyboard player Emily Haines met guitarist
James Shaw in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Haines, the
daughter Paul Haines (a poet who has collaborated with
jazz artist Carla Bley), was born in New Delhi in 1974 but
moved to Toronto with her family when she was three. While
studying at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, a high
school for aspiring artists in Toronto, Haines formed her
first band with fellow student Amy Millan. Haines and
Millan would go on to form a group called Stars, which
also included Torquil Campbell and Chris Seligman. Through
Campbell, Haines was introduced to British-born and
Canadian-raised Shaw in 1998, not long after he had
relocated to Toronto following three years of study at the
Julliard 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 their new
material that would become Metric's debut EP, Mainstream,
released in 1998. Later that same year, Haines and Shaw
relocated to Brooklyn, New York, and 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 album, Grow Up and Blow Away. In 2000,
Metric signed 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, who was born in Michigan but had relocated to
Brooklyn after studying at a music school in Texas;
Scott-Key was soon invited to join Metric, and before
long his friend Joshua Winstead, who attended the same
school in Texas, came aboard as bassist. Metric had 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, and once they
began working with the new rhythm section, Metric decided
the pop-oriented electronic sound of Grow Up and Blow Away
was no longer representative of their music. Metric parted
ways with Restless and took the masters for Grow Up with
them; in the fall of 2003, the Canadian independent label
Everloving Records released Metric's second "debut" album,
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. The album
(later picked up by Last Gang Records) was a major
critical and commercial success, especially in Canada, and
in 2005 Metric issued Live It Out, another success which
was followed by a lengthy international tour. Metric took
a hiatus after touring behind Live It Out. 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. In 2008, after Haines
decided she'd had enough of the downbeat music she'd
composed with the Soft Skeleton, Metric regrouped in
Toronto and began work on their next album; Fantasies was
scheduled for international release in April 2009.