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Fantasies Metric/Last Gang

Article written by James S - May 13, 2009

Metric - Fantasies

Fantasies, eh? We all have ‘em so here’s some of mine. Isla Fisher and Kat Dennings having a pillow fight in their underwear. Leeds United playing at the St James’s Park in Newcastle next season rather than the one in Exeter. Metric somehow managing to better their last two majestic electro-rock-pop masterpieces. Admittedly, the first is highly improbable, and the second remains only a vague possibility. So what about the third?

Well, if this album doesn’t quite surpass the twin peaks that were ‘Old World Underground…’ and ’Live It Out’ then that’s more a comment on the strength of those records than any real failing on ’Fantasies’ part. Sure, they’ve cranked up their trademark random coupling song name generator to 11 (Satellite Mind, Stadium Love, Sick Muse) and a few of the songs could do with tightening up a bit but it won‘t let any Metric fan down and ought to attract plenty more.

Help I’m Alive is a blood-rush of synths and riffs as Emily Haines cries “my heart is beating like a hammer” over suitably thumping drums, before the rollicking Sick Muse follows hot on its heels. Gold Guns and Girls and Front Row cover the recurring Metric theme of fame, but it’s Gimme Sympathy that best demonstrates their love/hate relationship with the big time. Written after opening for the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Gardens (hence the title), Haines laments “we’re so close, to something better left unknown” over the biggest and best tune on the record bar one.

That one is the self-styled ‘Noah’s Ark transplanted into the Thunderdome’ blast of Stadium Love. Imagine Girls Aloud’s Watch Me Go being given a thorough beasting by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - all guitars, stomping beats and keyboards that demand you “woo-oo-ooh” along. Metric have created a set of 'Fantasies' you should all have.

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