The mellow mania of Metric

They made their name with spiky, angry songs perfect for sweaty clubs. Now Metric are finding their lighter side. Will the band's fans go for it?"Let me ask you something," says Jimmy Shaw, leaning across the table. "If the record were called Distance, do you think it would have a different energy?" We are in a bar discussing Metric's recent album, a startlingly buoyant record that, at the very last moment, had its name changed from Distance to Fantasies. "Whatever you call an album, you leave t...

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