Learning the Metric System
Blog friend Televisionarie recently informed me that she didn’t know much about Metric. As a recently converted Metric fan myself (got the appeal sometime in early fall 2008), and one excited about next week’s new album, Fantasies, I threw together this quick mix:
Succexy was the first Metric song I ever sought out, and only then after having it described to me as a modern war protest song. I expected a Masters of War type song, not something as flashy as Shock and Awe. This song’s ability to ape the breathlessness of the beginning of the Iraq War in order to protest it won me over pretty quickly. From there, I meandered through the albums. The songs above are all great, but the best ones are Succexy, Monster Hospital, Live It Out, and my favorite, the closer Dead Disco.
And as a bonus, stream the entire new album at the official Metric website.
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