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Live It Out

Metric

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“Sha la la la la,” Emily Haines ends Live It Out’s title track, punctuating the last syllable with a tired, disgusted sneer. Both enjoying and challenging the fun and beauty the four-piece conjures with its splintery New Wave-isms, Haines carries forward the Mekons’ dictum: “Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late.” Unwilling to settle for any easy answer, including her own, she kicks against the world even as she sighingly acknowledges that the gesture might be futile (“I fought the war, but the war won,” she sings on “Monster Hospital”). Nonetheless, Metric delights in, well, delight, when they can find it. “Sure for the first time you’re wearing the right clothes,” Haines murmurs seconds before the guitars start to build on “Too Little Too Late.” “Now take them off.” Questioning everything but refusing to exist only in her buzzing head, she and her fellows in Metric have made one of the most rewarding rock albums in quite some time.

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Brilliance.

How can Metric get any better? Their last CD was absolutely smashing, this new one blows it out of the water. I like all of the songs on this CD, the only one I might get a bit irritated with would be "Empty" ... it's a bit too soft for me at first, but the general quality would still get it 10/10 or whatever. Oh, wait, I have only one large complaint. Can Metric stop getting better, because people are getting annoyed at me for playing the same songs several times in a row.

3.5 stars wasn't a choice, but 3 stars would be untruthful

Metric's new CD certainly is not a terrible letdown. Not only do they have killer art on the cover of Live It Out, but they match it with equally amazing songs. But I believe that in exploring and gaining new sounds and new heights they have lost a little "Metric-ness" present in Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? To me, the vocals in some parts seem to resemble Karen O.'s, and sometimes the guitar passages do the same. I'm not saying that Metric has at all lost their flair, though, and I still strongly recommend the purchase of their new album.

Stop Already......

Because my feet are killing me. I can't stop dancing to this record. Could Metric be ANY MORE dead on!?!? Live it out is brilliant. Emily's lyrics, the innovative song structers. "Police and Private" seriously FLEW to the top of my 25 most played. "Handshakes".....is 100% clever. Old World was a masterpiece, but this is quite a follow up. Plus they do a great live show. The only band I have seen 3 times in one week, ever.

Biography

Formed: 1998 in Brooklyn, NY

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s

Metric are a band with an eclectic, adventurous outlook, whose music encompasses elements of synth pop, new wave, dance-rock, and electronica and whose hometown has vacillated between Toronto, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, and London over the course of the group's existence. Metric's story began in 1998, when vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines met guitarist James Shaw in Toronto, Canada. Although born in New Delhi, Haines — the daughter Paul Haines, a Canadian-American poet best known for...
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