Emily Haines’ bunch of peppy Canucks, Metric, have announced details of their new album, due out in April. Fantasies, the band’s first since their 2005 breakthrough Live It Out, which spawned the hit ‘Monster Hospital’, is due out on April 14. Pre-orders can be made on www.ilovemetric.com from March 2, and anyone who pre-orders the album will receive a free mp3 of its first single, ‘Help I’m Alive’. Tasty.
The band have also discussed their plans for the albums release, which they have financed themselves. Apart from in Canada and Mexico, the album will be totally self-released. Guitarist Jimmy Shaw explained: “We’re not doing it totally on our own. In Canada it’s coming out with Last Gang and our friends at Arts & Crafts will be releasing the album in Mexico. We’ve set up distribution and hired our own staff to handle releasing the record in the USA, the UK, all throughout continental Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. We might go down in flames, or it might be the best move ever. Either way it will have been on our terms, and that for us is success.”
Frontwoman Emily Haines said: “We just said, ‘Oh fuck it, lets gamble’, took a deep breath and decided to put this record out worldwide our own way.”
Fantasies tracklist:
‘Help I’m Alive’
‘Sick Muse’
‘Satellite Mind’
‘Twilight Galaxy’
‘Gold Guns Girls’
‘Gimme Sympathy’
‘Collect Call’
‘Front Row’
‘Blindness’
‘Stadium Love’
Posted on: January 29, 2009
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