Metric: Synthetica – review

(Metric Music International)Listening to Synthetica, you have to keep reminding yourself that this is Emily Haines's fifth album with Metric, because the singer repeatedly comes across like a surly teenager oscillating between stroppy despair and proud optimism. Her first line, "I'm just as fucked-up as they say", is flinty with defiance; her last, "I've got nothing but time, so the future is mine", burns with hope. The more confounding she is, the more Haines gets under your skin: she delivers...

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