Metric Dim The Lights So They Can See The Stars [The Last Word]
Our look at the closing lines of the week's biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Fantasies, the third album by Canadian pop-slingers Metric:
• "The story here though is the album's simmering, intimate moments—and despite the fanbase-building qualities of their new-wave past, the more the group embraces an inky, ambient future, the better it could get." [Rebecca Raber, Pitchfork]
• "Haines' lyrics don't always signify: 'I'm higher than high, lower than deep,' b...
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