Stadium Love

Hi everyone,

Recently we had the pleasure of making a video for our song Stadium Love with some new wild friends. 

As one of the sentiments expressed in the song is man's disregard for the natural world around us, we were concerned with how the animals we would be working with would be treated.  Rest assured, not only were these animals treated with love, respect and tenderness, they were the stars.  The word divas comes to mind. It was perfect, we worked on their schedule and pace.

Needless to say, you will see what an amazing experience it was for us to be this up close and personal with these stunningly powerful Hollywood stars. Yes it is truly very close.

 

Malkin Bowl June 11 Show Rescheduled

Hey everyone,

Regrettably, there has been a change to our touring schedule. Due to a scheduling error by the venue, our June 11 performance at Malkin Bowl has been moved to June 13.

Tickets for June 11 will be honored at the door on the rescheduled show date. If you have tickets, but are unable to attend the June 13 date, you can get a refund at the point of purchase any time until June 10.

The June 12 show will remain as scheduled.

We are very sorry for this inconvenience, but this is the result of circumstances outside of our control.

p.s. Thanks to Much Music for nominating “Gold Guns Girls” as best indie video for this year’s MMVA’s!

UK -- London Concerts + FANTASIES Deluxe Edition Release

Hey everybody,

Monday May 24 marks the release of the deluxe version of FANTASIES in the UK, which includes a bonus disc featuring exclusive acoustic tracks, remixes, new covers + a photographic poster designed by the band. You can pre-order it now on iTunes, Amazon, and Play, see below for the complete track listing!
 
To celebrate, we're coming to play in London!  Our show at Shepherd's Bush Empire on May 24 is sold out but there are still a few tickets left for our show at Koko on Sunday May 23.  Thanks to our friends at Spotify, you can get 25% off the ticket price here.
 
Also, we're excited to announce that we’ll be performing on BBC’s “Later with Jools Holland” alongside Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Corrine Bailey Ray, Crystal Castles and, yes, Tom Jones.  Tune in on Tuesday May 25 & Friday May 27 to catch the show!
 
UK Fantasies Deluxe Edition
 
Disc 1
 
1.       Help I’m Alive
2.       Sick Muse
3.       Satellite Mind
4.       Twilight Galaxy
5.       Gold Guns Girls
6.       Gimme Sympathy
7.       Collect Call
8.       Front Row
9.       Blindness
10.     Stadium Love
 
Disc 2
 
1.      Waves
2.      The Gates
3.      Help I’m Alive (Acoustic)
4.      Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic)
5.      Sick Muse (Acoustic)
6.      Sick Muse (Adam Freeland Remix)
7.      Gimme Sympathy (Adam Freeland Remix)
8.      Help I’m Alive (Twelves Remix)
9.      Nobody Home (cover)
10.    Sugar Mountain (cover)
11.    The Making of Fantasies: Buenos Aires to New York City (Video)
 

METRIC COMPOSE THEME SONG FOR TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE -- "All YOURS"

Yes ... It’s official.  Our song “All Yours”, co-written with the legendary film composer Howard Shore and performed by Metric, is going to be featured in the movie Eclipse, the next installment in the worldwide phenomenon known as the Twilight saga.
 
I've always wanted to write music for film, but I never expected to start with something on this scale, so you can imagine how surprised I was when out of nowhere I got a phone call from Howard Shore, who I’d never met or even spoken with before. Most people know him as the man who wrote the acclaimed score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I grew up on Shore's earlier works--  his score for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch in collaboration with jazz great Ornette Coleman still stands as one of the most ambitious & unusual scores out there. 

To my amazement, Howard was calling to ask me to work with him on his latest project: scoring the next Twilight movie, Eclipse. He wanted Jimmy & I to write the theme song for the pivotal last scene in the movie, integrating the music from his existing score into a composition that would express the emotional ending of the film. Seriously?!?!  The lyrics would have to be in the voice of the main character Bella, and we had to stay within the confines of harmonic and melodic themes Howard had in mind for the last scene. 

We've had songs from our albums licensed for use in movies & tv shows before, but composing for a score was completely different.  Every day as the song progressed--from sitting at the piano with Jimmy in NYC recording acoustic versions and reading the script (see photo below), to working at Howard's studio upstate, to tracking vocals at our own studio Giant in Toronto, to mixing at Electric Lady with Howard on the line from Abbey Road in London-- every step of the way we did our best to fulfill Howard’s vision of the film's last moments.

Still, everybody knows the movie business is insanely competitive, and for things like this, it’s never a sure thing until the movie is done and the picture is locked...

But as of today, it's happening.  Our song, “All Yours”, is in the movie and will be the lead off track from the soundtrack, to be released on June 8th.

I don't have to tell you what an honor it was to be hand picked by Howard to do this work. We are massively grateful for the opportunity & hope you all enjoy Metric's first ever film composition.

Now, back to reality...