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The four-person band Metric released Gold Guns Girls as part of Fantasies in 2009.

Writer Emily Haines is well known for telling what’s wrong with the world to an upbeat alternative dance tempo.

I wanted to share this stunning, ethereal song, Long to Live. It is written and sung by Emily Haines and performed by Metric.

“Speed the Collapse,” the latest pre-release from Metric, drums a dire apocalyptic warning to an electro-pop beat. Images such as “distant lightning, thunderclaps,” and “oceans boiled and rivers bled” are combined with a full dramatic musical effect.

“Youth Without Youth” is a prerelease off Metric’s new work Synthetica.  Metric is a collaboration between singers/songwriters Emily Haines and James Shaw, bass player Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key.