The Pelican’s Perch

The music news just keeps pouring in.  And the best part is the majority of it is news about albums I’ve been waiting a long time to hear.  First Manchester Orchestra, now Metric.  Two bands I absolutely love.  Metric’s new album Fantasies will be released on March 2nd and sounds like it will be an interesting new direction for Metric.  Emily Haines traveled to Buenos Aires recently, where she says she went to escape since she knew no one there, and just started writing with a clean slate, with the new music dictating a new chapter in her life.  Jimmy Shaw, Metric’s guitarist, said the writing process was relaxed this time around, with the music dictating the direction the album went, and this relaxed writing process led to an album that ended up being “really big and really dreamy”.  Considering Metric is known for more of a dance quality to their tunes, I’m curious to hear this new epic, dreamy Metric.  The first single is a good hint at what the album will sound like.  If they can replicate songs like “Calculation Theme” or “The Police and the Private”, both of which are really great downtempo Metric songs, for the duration of a whole album, then count me in.

We’ll see if this new direction is widely accepted by Metric fans, but I really enjoy the honesty and emotion that Metric has put into this new album.  I don’t know about you, but I’m excited as ever to finally hear Metric’s new album, and March 2nd couldn’t get here fast enough.  Like usual, I’ll let you know more info on this new album as soon as anything new pops up.  Here’s the album version of “Help, I’m Alive”, a mini behind the scenes video with Haines, and if you’re really adventurous, you can get the acoustic mp3 of the single with your email.  You don’t have to do the email thing if you don’t want, it was just there on their press page and I figured some of you may want to hear it.

Fantasies
March 2nd, 2009

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

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