Check out Metric’s companion piece to last year’s ‘Formentera’ LP on Live4ever.
Metric unveiled Formentera II during their summer tour of North America with Noel Gallagher and Garbage after recording sessions at their own Main Street Studios near Toronto.
It was led off by Once, a single described by lead singer Emily Haines as ‘regret disco’:
It’s a song for when you need to dance yourself clean. Beneath the sparkling surface, there’s a lyrical exploration of a simple word with many meanings. Once is a word that plays a game of opposites. Once can mean once-upon-a-time and refer to a moment in the past, or it can mean someday, once something happens.
“And as for doing something only once versus doing something once in a while, well, I think we all know how vast the difference is between the two.”