Review
Emily Haines is an indie-rock careerist. She’s low-key glamorous, divides her time between the coasts and occasionally ponders things like, “Who’d you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?” before demurring, “Oh, seriously.” The fourth disc from her Toronto foursome Metric adds brawn, finesse and grandeur to their new-wave drive and Morse-code guitar scrapes; Haines used to fire diagonal digs at the subculture that produced her, but here she’s big-picture critical, singing about people trapped by the desires that rock songs sell and life smacks down. (“All the gold and the guns and the girls couldn’t get you off,” she tells some sucker in a girly-yet-chilly voice that suggests an eyelash-batting Marxist.) Of course, one of the people she worries over is Emily Haines—more famous-y than us, but just as star-struck and screwed.
Download “Help, I’m Alive,” “Gimme Sympathy”
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