From Spin Mag online...
Bands to Watch: Metric
Who: Perky new wave quartet from Los Angeles via Toronto and New York City. Fronted by an intimidatingly cool, swaggering art girl, Metric include a guitarist who was formerly a renegade Juilliard trumpet student, an earnest drummer who immediately admits he??s fibbing about being related to national anthem composer Francis Scott Key, and an earthy, dreadlocked bassist who owns up to having no knowledge of J.Lo.
Sound like: Their debut, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, rocks like a sexy librarian: smart, sassy, and classy. On ??Combat Baby? and ??Dead Disco? (both of which have received radio airplay), singer/keyboardist Emily Haines?? sweetly edgy voice and slinky synths never waver, even as the songs veer from playfully danceable to elegantly eerie.
Kicking it Billy Joel-style: ??Keyboards have joined the ranks of serious rock instruments,? Haines proclaims. Indeed, Metric??s slick, hip-shaking live act reveals no evidence of the pianist??s perennial dilemma: less-than-cool stage poses. Guitarist James Shaw says, ??If you want to get up with a key-tar, go for it!?
As a bonus, they??ll catch your spirit if it flies away: ??I had a transcendent experience in Detroit,? Haines says, describing an intense audience. ??I hit some crazy high note and felt like the crowd??s souls all landed on me.?
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