Everyone has dream destinations, but this is not a TV travel brochure for family audiences. “Dream Destinations” is the title of a travel book that lay open with the FORMENTERA page in guitarist Jimmy Shaw’s studio and offered far-reaching associations to the eighth Metric album. The Balearic Island as a real but unreachable place, the pandemic, of course. But the song collection by singer Emily Haines and her band isn’t just about the virus and its consequences, it’s also about politics, social upheaval, George Floyd and yes, the war.
We come into the album with a “Doomscroller”, which takes along technoid beats and pop pathos over the course of ten minutes, in a dose that makes tourist discos shake. On “What Feels Like Eternity” Metric lend their power pop a few extra muscles and pour the “Uhuhuhs” from the list of eternal catchy tunes over it – here it’s programmatically pushing the pain limit again and again. Alternatively, the orchestra and keyboard drone in the title track, combined with the urgent question: “Why not just let go?” A final melancholic howler to come down: “Paths In The Sky”. Metric oscillate between escapism and partying on the one hand and self-healing on the other.
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