Metric released its sixth album, Pagans in Vegas, while another is ready to be launched. After Synthetica, Metric members took a break independently of each other and in their own way: in the winter Jimmy Shaw of Toronto and Emily Haines with her suitcase in the heat of Nicaragua and Spain.
“Jimmy and I wrote lots of music separately. Him in his studio and me around the world with my guitar. We came up with not one but two albums, “says Emily Haines.
Jimmy compositions are in the heart of Pagans in Vegas, released today, while those of Emily are the foundations of a second album to be released when the Metric decide, thanks to the new application that the group has launched, called “The Pagan Portal”.
Metric, the last three albums have originated in the studio Giant Jimmy Shaw (he shares with Sebastien Grainger of Death From Above 1979).
“We have the freedom and the time to explore. It is an environment where we can try everything, “says Emily Haines.
However Metric buckle his albums in New York, in company of the mixer John O’Mahony. For his previous album, Synthetica, it’s been at the legendary Electric Lady studio. For Pagans in Vegas, the final stage of production took place in the Oscilloscope Labs, the studio Beastie Boys. “It’s like going to the album X-rays to correct his past faults,” says Emily Haines.
Jimmy Shaw has abandoned his guitar to lay the musical foundation of Pagans in Vegas with a modular synthesizer CS80. “I looked nerds YouTube videos where musicians providing the bass line with their left hand and the melody with their right hand with the rhythm, he says. I thought it was a fascinating way to write songs. ”
Following Pagans in Vegas will be more intimate and acoustic. “A bit like my solo album, Knives Do not Have Your Back” illustrates Emily Haines.
With minimalist electro vogue in recent years, many musicians have improvised keyboardists. However, there are kinds of “synth heroes” who master the instrument to perfection. Bands like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and New Order, for example, have revolutionized electronic music.
Metric wanted to honor them. “We have almost no use of MIDI language. We played live, “says Jimmy Shaw.
Endangering themselves
For Emily Haines and his accomplices, it is important to always be a step forward, or at least elsewhere, without too cling to the musical signature associated with Metric. “We cannot stand still looking at the past. Put yourself in danger. ”
Besides, Jimmy Shaw sings for the first time on a piece of Metric, Other Side. “I come out completely from my comfort zone, so that was the thing to do,” he says.
He also wrote the instrumental final piece The Face Part II, whose open end makes sense with the album’s coming. “We hear an answering machine,” says Emily Haines, who draws attention to the phone number, fans can call Metric and where awaits a kind of time travel.
Metric wants to weave the most direct link with his audience as possible, without commercial intermediaries. “Today, in the online world, music is for sale. This is a hook for advertising. There is a lot of noise on the web, “argues Emily Haines.
“We now have a tunnel between our fans and us. We can start new songs when we want, without waiting after anyone, “adds Jimmy Shaw.
“This will give us a lot of freedom for the release of the next album,” added Emily.
Authenticity and passing time are favorite themes for the songwriter. “Vegas is a metaphor for the world and the economy never stop. We are like Bigfoot front of a slot machine.”
Turn with Imagine Dragons
Metric Emily Haines recalls that constantly takes risks. She feels fortunate to have been part of the golden age of indie rock. Metric continues to lead an enviable career while remaining independent through his own record company in the Crystal Math Music Group.
This does not prevent the quartet, completed by bassist and the Joshua Winstead drummer Joules Scott-Key, want to join the many people as possible with his music. Hence the fact that the group recently decided to make the first part of the Imagine Dragons tour. “We played in front of half a million people who did not know us. We must put his ego aside. And if we were afraid of being too mainstream, we had the proof that we are far from it. ”
“Strangely, I felt very free in this tour, says Haines. I did not have the pressure of being a headliner. We were the cool group, such as when we started. We were David and not Goliath. ”
With Pagans in Vegas, Metric remains that draws more Goliath. The critics are harsh towards the album. But the public will decide and more acoustic and intimate result is coming.
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