Metric Talk Deepest, Darkest Fantasies

Metric are lightening up. A little. While the Toronto-based band's music has always leaned toward the upbeat-- shock-treatment new wave, dance, and rock-- its worldview is usually anything but. Whether singer and main lyricist Emily Haines is railing against war ("Succexy"), stagnant art ("Dead Disco"), or an increasingly overbearing world ("The Police and the Private"), she always seems to be railing against something. But on upcoming fourth album Fantasies (out April 14), the band took a diff...

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