Metric – Fantasies
Release Date: 04/07/2009
Independent Release (US)
Rating: 4/5

Metric is back with their first full-length release since 2005′s “Live it Out.” In between the 4 year span of relative inactivity as a band, front woman Emily Haines has gone on to release two solo-efforts and has returned for Metric’s 3rd full-length on the top of her game. From the opening track and first single “Help, I’m Alive” to the epic closer “Stadium Love”, Fantasies plays exactly how the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s latest effort wishes it would have.

Haines dominates “Fantasies” with her sick, ambitious, usual word-play, covering topics from desperate apathy (“Help, I’m Alive”) to unwanted love (“Sick Muse”). Haine’s signature sexually charged lyrical themes also find their place throughout Fantasies such as on the album’s third track “Satellite Mind” where she croons
“heard you fuck through the wall
i heard you fuck when i’m bored”

If there are any lines on Fantasies that can sum up the shock-and-awe aggression that is found as a prominent theme throughout Fantasies, it’s right here. It’s almost as if Haines has grown tired of the fragile piano ballads from her 2006 solo effort Knives Don’t Have Your Back and it’s succeeding EP. Rather than sitting back as a demure lead, Metric have pulled off what is probably their most accessible album to date. As the album winds down, one would expect the album to close on a graceful note, instead we are given the album’s top track, a fist pumping synth-pop anthem with a raucous chorus that closes the album with a resounding bang. It’s in these final closing moments of Fantasies that it’s full potential is realized as a immovable collection of synth-pop jams that are addictive as they are rewarding with each successive spin.

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