Metric live at the Manchester Academy on January 31st, 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Metric are currently touring North America with Garbage and Noel Gallagher.
Metric will release a companion piece to last year’s Formentera album on October 13th.
Formentera II was recorded primarily at their own Main Street Studios near Toronto and is being trailed today with Just The Once, 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.”
Formentera II tracklist:
Detour Up
Just The Once
Stone Window
Days Of Oblivion
Who Would You Be For Me
Suckers
Nothing Is Perfect
Descendants
Go Ahead And Cry