Metric has really lost their touch. Which is such a shame since Fantasies was a truly fantastic album start to finish. And honestly up until Synthetica all their albums we're pretty great overall, they all had that weird metric charm which is some combination of odd rhythms and tunes, strange lyrics but overall very catchy songs. But then Synthetica happened and either we just got tired of Emily Haines' odd style or they just forgot to make their songs catchy along with the strange. Yet Haines seems to caught up in herself to be aware that the band just doesn't make good music anymore. I mean The Shade was a half passable first single, but only barely catchy. And none of the other pushes singles succeeded to even cause a ripple since. Though For Kicks is actually a pretty decent track and Celebrate is almost ok...but only almost. It's not impossible for Metric to come back and make good music again, but they seem like their pushing for stranger for the sake of strange over their likable and dance-able music of their past.
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