Electric Metric

Metric, one of our favourite bands and one of the most underrated bands, like, in the world-universe, are on the cusp (CUSP KLAXON) of releasing their 5th studio album, Synethetica. Well, we say '5th', but if you count out Grow Up and Blow Away which was only released years after it was shelved, it's their fourth. But who's counting? Us! We're counting.

As most musical acts do when they have a new album to promote, Metric have released a lead single. It's called "Youth Without Youth" and you can listen to it on this nice little pretty soundcloud embed below:



It's not blowing our pants off into the big stadium rock epic winds of time (!?) but it'll do, won't it? It's 'stonking'. We like it, even if it's not the best thing by them we've ever heard. You can't expect everything to be the best thing someone's ever done! There'll doubtless be a wealth of riches on the album anyway. Metric are more an albums band than a singles one, anyway. Yeah. That's it.

The album artwork is at the top of this post, the album tracklisting is below. Aren't we helpful?

1. "Artificial Nocturne"
2. "Youth Without Youth"
3. "Speed the Collapse"
4. "Breathing Underwater"
5. "Dreams So Real"
6. "Lost Kitten"
7. "The Void"
8. "Synthetica"
9. "Clone"
10. "The Wanderlust"
11. "Nothing But Time" 

You can ALSO listen to Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric discuss the lead single, "Youth Without Youth" in a commentary, also in the soundcloud above, it should be the second track. It's about riots and social malaise and student debt, or something. Don't look at us, they said it!