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[Saskadelphia]

"Help, I'm Alive" (Radio Edit)

It sure feels like Metric are coming into their own, a cool blend of dance beats and straightforward powerpop. The tetchy post punk guitars are gone...less angularity, more moodiness. It's quite a pretty single, especially when the falsetto kicks in with the Billion Dollar Babies style acoustic/electric riff. Outstanding, really.

[Music Saves]

Yeah, heard this on stereogum the other day, like it a lot. I'm all about Metric, glad they are finally back.

[Dread]

Yeah, finally. I remember in late '07 they said it would be out in early '08. What happened? What happened to a lot of bands who proclaimed similar things really? Too many artists who were supposedly "almost done" last January still haven't put out anything. Anyway, thanks for the link. I sort of lost interest in Metric in '06, but I'm hoping some fresh music could reignite my interest.

[spiritofeden]

this is a great track. better then anything on the new Killers album at least.

[spiritofeden]

anybody seeing any of the shows on the Canadian tour?

[Saskadelphia]

They're here in a couple days, I really should go.

[spiritofeden]

They're here in a couple days, I really should go.

you should. saw it last night in Toronto.

pretty solid show. they are doing surround sound PA, and the light show is pretty impressive.

[spiritofeden]

[Simakos]

great song. easily the hottest woman in rock too...

[souvlaki]

anybody seeing any of the shows on the Canadian tour?

They're playing back to back shows at the Vogue in just over a week...not sure if any tix are available and even then not sure if I'm gonna kick down for them but the new single is pretty promising. I think they're playing a larger and more promoted show (if I recall tied in with the olympics) next year with BSS...may wait til then.

[Nosejavelin]

I hope to God this is better than Live It Out. Their "first" album (the one that wasn't Grow Up And Blow Away) was nearly perfect, but the follow-up just seemed too samey.

[Saskadelphia]

Really tough to drag myself out into the -25 cold, but I did, and the show tonight was good fun. Missed Sebastian Grainger sadly, but the Dears were good. As for Tokyo Police Club, I've never seen so much energy with so little payoff...what a mediocre band. Metric was great though, they did eight new songs, which was cool, and which bodes very well for the new album, as there were no real duds. Liked "Stadium Love" a lot. And yeah, great light show, and that surround PA dealy worked surprisingly well. In fact, this was the best show I've seen from them since they were a support act...the previous headline shows had them seeming a bit chilly. They appear a lot happier now, and Haines no longer seemed to be going through the motions.

[Simakos]

that surround PA dealy worked surprisingly well.

tell me more about this?

[Saskadelphia]

that surround PA dealy worked surprisingly well.

tell me more about this?

They basically have two big PA thingies set up as rear channel speakers, directly opposite the left and right stage PA and a few metres back past the mixing desk, where a guy does cool little tricks with the vocals and synths, doing little swirly surround tricks. I was amazed at how good it sounded, and I was in an awful-sounding venue.

[Simakos]

that surround PA dealy worked surprisingly well.

tell me more about this?

They basically have two big PA thingies set up as rear channel speakers, directly opposite the left and right stage PA and a few metres back past the mixing desk, where a guy does cool little tricks with the vocals and synths, doing little swirly surround tricks. I was amazed at how good it sounded, and I was in an awful-sounding venue.

cool... more bands should do this.

Monty, we know. Pink Floyd did it first.

[spiritofeden]

iam quite happy with how the surround PA turned out. we didnt even get their full lighting rig up in Saskatoon because the roof was so damn low. what a terrible room.

[Saskadelphia]

we didnt even get their full lighting rig up in Saskatoon because the roof was so damn low. what a terrible room.

What, are you on the crew???

And yeah, that place is like playing a show in a warehouse.

[spiritofeden]

we didnt even get their full lighting rig up in Saskatoon because the roof was so damn low. what a terrible room.

What, are you on the crew???

And yeah, that place is like playing a show in a warehouse.

nah.

[Saskadelphia]

New album's leaked...

[Simakos]

any good?