Metric is a Canadian group of independent Rock. It was formed in 1998 in New York, but is currently based in Toronto, in Ontario (Canada).
The group includes/understands at the beginning a singer (which plays also of the keyboard), Emily Haines, and a guitarist James Shaw, both Canadian, who is the founders of the group. Written Emily, James composes. Their first demonstrations are joined together under the title of Mainstream EP in 1998. Their first album EP, Static Anonymity EP produces by Jimmy Shaw, leaves in 2002. Grow up and blow away was to follow under the label Restless Records, but it will never leave following a conflict with the recording company. These demonstrations circulate nevertheless on Internet. With the preceding end of the year, the group widened and became complete by integrating two Americans: the bass player John Winstead and the beater Scott-Key Joules. The second album, Old World underground, Where are you now? is appeared in 2003 in North America. Following the appearance of the group in the Clean film of Olivier Assayas, the album left to France some time afterwards. Live it out , their new opus, left on October 4th, 2005 to Canada and the United States.
Hatreds and Shaw also played with Broken Social Scene and Haines was invited on the album of Stars, KC Accidentall and Delirium.
In 2007 Emily Haines launches out in a career solo with the album " Knives Don' T Cuts You Back".
Emily is the girl of the " jazzpoet" Canadian Paul Hatreds (author in particular of the booklet d'" Escalator over the Hill" (Carla Bley, 1971)) and the sister of the journalist of television Avery Hatreds.
Discography
Mainstream EP (1998 - demonstrations)- Butcher
- The People
- The Battlecry
- The Elects
- The Lifestyle
- Dr. Blind
Static Anonymity e.p. (2002 - Almost Records)
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Grow Up And Blow Away
- Siamese Cities
- Down
- Software Rock'n'roll Star (Jimmy vs. Joe mix)
- London Half Life
Grow Up and Blow Away (demonstrations - Restless Records)
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Grow Up And Blow Away
- One The Sly
- Torture Me
- Brass band
- Parkdale
- Raw Sugar
- The Twist
- Rock'n'roll Me Now
- Software Rock'n'roll Star
- White Gold
- Hardwire
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (2003 - Everloving)
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I.O.U
- Hustle Pink
- Succexy
- Combat Baby
- Calculation Topic
- Wet Blanket
- One has Slow fox trot Night
- The List
- Dead Disco
- Love Has Place
Live it out (2005 - Last Gang Records)
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Empty
- Glass Ceiling
- Handshakes
- Too Little Too Late
- Poster off has Girl
- Monster Hospital
- Patriarch one has Vespa
- The Police and the Private
- Ending Start
- Live It Out
External bonds
- Canadian Official site * French official site * French-speaking forum " officiel" because approved by the active group!
Simple: Metric (band)
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