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Kevin Drew on the crisis of confidence that nearly derailed the band's return.
The following afternoon, the group contemplated whether they could go on. Marr, a Manchester native, called saying he was too distraught to perform. Recalling their qualms about playing that night, Drew said the group concluded that “everyone else went to work that day. So we did, too.”
In anticipation of Choir of the Mind—the first solo album from Metric frontwoman Emily Haines in 10 years—the video for the album track “Planets” is out now
Choir of the Mind was largely composed in stolen moments with her piano over the past few years of intensive work with Metric. It was recorded over a number of weeks in 2016 at Giant Studios, on the West end of Toronto, where Emily and spiritual advisor and musical partner Jimmy Shaw have each lived and worked for the past two decades. The album was co-produced by Emily and Jimmy (who also mixed the album) and engineered by Kenny Luong. Sparklehorse drummer Scott Minor, who also appeared on the original Soft Skeleton recordings, returns on the track "Legend of the Wild Horse."
The huge cast of musicians recapture the spirit of their 2002 breakthrough album You Forgot it in People.
Thus, when the mood within the Scene once again felt conducive to actually making another album, the group’s first since 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record, this ragtag gang of old friends simply decided not to stress about trying to impose traditional rules of studio conduct on its art and made a return, of sorts, to the anti-formula that first propelled it to international attention with 2002’s accidental classic You Forgot It In People.
They jammed a bunch of new tunes out in guitarist Charles Spearin’s garage and then set about recording them in co-founder Brendan Canning’s living room, letting the usual enormous cast of characters — de facto frontman and other original member Kevin Drew, Leslie Feist, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars among them — come and go as they saw fit.
This reunited Canadian supergroup has released its first album since 2010, and despite the music’s flourishes, it holds a growing disquiet.
Most of the songs on “Hug of Thunder” feature Kevin Drew, who started Broken Social Scene with Brendan Canning. But there are also lyrics (and lead vocals) from Mr. Canning, from Feist, from Emily Haines of Metric and from the group’s latest recruit, Ariel Engle, who also records in AroarA, a duo with Andrew Whiteman, a longtime guitarist and synthesizer player with Broken Social Scene.
On May 23 of this year, Broken Social Scene played a show in Manchester, UK, a mere 24 hours after a terror attack struck an Ariana Grande concert in the city. Metric singer Emily Haines, touring with BSS at the time, tells Exclaim! that she was originally uncomfortable singing "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl" that night, but was convinced when former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr agreed to appear on stage with them.
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“Thank you for showing up. Thank you for coming out tonight. What’s most important is tonight we’re here together, all of us.” Drew ambled, hands tucked into his body, before introducing Marr (“He is your city; he is your legend”), who had changed his mind at the 23rd hour, to perform the aptly titled “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.”
“We were there that night and we happened to be able to play,” Drew says. “We happened to be a band who [doesn’t play] speed metal; we are a band about loss, life-living and coming together. Johnny came out; Emily, who wrote the song, was there to sing it. We had everything for them. You see a city, there was incredible sadness, but you also see it talking about love and hope and rising above. It was something that I’ll never forget.”
Metric’s Emily Haines has announced her first solo album in more than a decade.
“Most of the songs on the album came to me out of some recent major changes in my life, and others were composed when my life felt more stable”, says Haines. “Of them all, ‘Fatal Gift’ is the song that has lived with me the longest, through many incarnations. This is the right time for the definitive version to be heard. The song embodies for me the undeniable fact that no matter how high I climb, that voice, pulling me back to my essential self remains. We all pursue symbols of achievement, but utopian material promises are hollow”.
Metric's Emily Haines hosts My Playlist
Multiple Juno winner Emily Haines is a prolific composer with a voice that can go from breathy and ethereal to dark and edgy.
Metric's Emily Haines Details New Solo Album 'Choir of the Mind' - Rolling Stone
Singer-musician releases haunting "Fatal Gift" video and talks essence of femininity, identity and first solo album in more than a decade
"There's something so appealing to me about the idea that I dedicated my life to being a sound, which is a super strange mandate to set out, but I've done it and I am a sound,"
[Hustle Rose (LIVE) ... Metric HQ at the Big Time Out 2008](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdiFynDiCyI) >Another terrific live performance from the Big Time Out 2008 in Cumberland, BC, Canada.
[Metric Live It Out acoustic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tsD3Dyfnc) >Rolling Stone session
[Metric - 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDwt2-3Saws) >Metric performing a Bob Dylan cover, 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright' exclusively for SUPERSWEET
[Metric - Dead Disco - Live on ZeD-CBC - 2004-10-04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctaHNg6o7o0)
Metric – “Come On, Angel”
Canadian alt-pop stars Metric debuted a new song on The Strombo Show’s International Women’s Day special earlier this month. “Come On, Angel” is a swaying reverie built around Emily Haines’ plaintive vocals and an insistent keyboard melody, and you can hear it below.
[Metric *LIVE* Combat Baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1IvSZgjz2U) >Rare live studio performance circa 2005
"Cascades" on Exclaim! TV
Performing a single off last year's sparkly, refined Pagans in Vegas LP, the band members take "Cascades" in a completely different direction from the original studio recording. In place of the glittery synths and any trace of percussion, Shaw strums his acoustic guitar gently, while Haines employs her melodious, breathy vocals. The serene forest setting is perfect for the performance, as the trees blow gently around the musicians.
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Cool photo.
