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Title: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: squawk on 08 Mar 2009, 20:10

The new Metric album leaked (check Sordo)!

First impressions are super high so far. Will see how it stands compared to the rest of their catalog in a few days or so.

Emily Haines <3333333

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: KvP on 08 Mar 2009, 21:05

Well at least it isn't Stars.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: squawk on 08 Mar 2009, 21:10

go away john

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: michaelicious on 08 Mar 2009, 21:16

Quote from: KvP on 08 Mar 2009, 21:05

Well at least it isn't Stars.

Watch out man Torquil might make a blog post about you.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 08 Mar 2009, 21:20

I heard that was fake. Although I could see Torquil being a diva.
...I like Stars though. Does that make me lame?

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Johnny C on 09 Mar 2009, 08:08

Torquil once told a friend's sister, "Just because you're beautiful doesn't give you the right to be a bitch."

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Kevin Barnes on 09 Mar 2009, 10:37

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 Mar 2009, 21:25

Yes, including you Kevin Barnes.

I'm flattered that you would compare me favorably to such a shitbucket as Torquil Campbell.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: KickThatBathProf on 09 Mar 2009, 12:47

Quote from: squawk on 08 Mar 2009, 21:10

go away kevin

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 09 Mar 2009, 13:42

Stars are also pretty good live. Torquil is apparently a trained Shakespearean actor and thus has a pretty commanding stage presence. A jackass to be sure but the guy knows what he's doing.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: iamiam on 09 Mar 2009, 14:10

Um okay so about METRIC... I was just listening to the album this morning and the first time I thought it was just 'okay' but the more i listen to it the more it's growing on me.  Their only other album I have is 'Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?', and so far I think I still prefer it over Fantasies.

Stars is pretty great too.  Forget Torquil.  Amy Millan <3

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Johnny C on 09 Mar 2009, 16:03

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 09 Mar 2009, 13:42

Stars are also pretty good live. Torquil is apparently a trained Shakespearean actor

nope, i can't make sense of this

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 09 Mar 2009, 16:32

So he's an actor: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132904/
and is indeed a Shakespearean actor and director as well: http://garygoddardagency.com/clients/torquil-campbell (he's played Henry V, Lear's Fool, Romeo and more...craziness)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquil_Campbell

I don't find it hard to believe. The guy seems like he could be a drama queen.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Johnny C on 09 Mar 2009, 19:25

no i mean i don't equate  "shakesperean director & actor performing highly melodramatic pop music" with anything but "insufferable"

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: squawk on 09 Mar 2009, 23:11

This album is taking over my life today and yesterday

So far:
Old World Undergound > Fantasies > Live It Out

(and I never really listened to Grow Up and Blow Away as an album and I have the 2001 version anyway so I get confused)

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Johnny C on 10 Mar 2009, 00:12

Grow Up and Blow Away wasn't very good!

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Thrillho on 10 Mar 2009, 11:03

I reviewed 'Help I'm Alive' and wasn't impressed.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: RuthlessVengeance on 10 Mar 2009, 19:16

This is their best yet.

I love the tracks, "Gold Guns Girls" and "Blindness"
 This is a much more aggressive sound for Emily and the band. 

I liked the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD, but after hearing this.. This is the record that Karen O was trying to make.

I want to see them on this tour.

This is a great CD!

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: squawk on 10 Mar 2009, 21:26

All I remember is that their first album has "Raw Sugar". Now that is a goddamn song.

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: Symp on 10 Mar 2009, 21:40

this is a pretty fucking rad album

Title: Re: Metric - Fantasies
Post by: tania on 10 Mar 2009, 22:59

i really like grow up and blow away actually, it's my favourite metric album thus far. also the one emily's voice stands out the most on i think. it's a bit of a departure from anything else they've done but i'd say it's worth giving a chance if you enjoy either of the older two albums or the new one.
i'm reluctant to call anything metric has done thus far amazing or mindblowing, but they write good enough songs and emily haines is always pleasant to listen to, so yeah, fantasies is pretty rad.