While we’re all out here playing the 2016 challenge, going back a decade before everything truly went to shit, Metric are taking the nostalgia leap a bit further. The veteran indie band announced a new album called Romanticize The Dive, out April 24 on Thirty Tigers, and with it comes a shimmering jolt of hopeful aughts-pop with lead single “Victim of Luck,” transporting us back to the band’s early days of the 2000s, when dead discos, combative babies, and quests for old world undergrounds ruled our iPods. It was also a time of creative awakenings, humble beginnings, and the start of a wild journey, for the band and everyone else of a certain age.
“The song ‘Victim Of Luck’ and really the entire album is about the romance of a less than perfect life,” says Emily Haines. “It’s about dropping the mask of self-consciousness and vanity. It was a long journey for me to get out of my own way and I wanted this song to be a rallying cry for that, better late than never. You can be as much a victim of good luck as bad.”
She adds: “So when we started out yes we were broke and we were playing to 10 people and there was nothing for us to fall back on but we refused to give up, and it’s not as though we’re all superstar billionaires now, but that was never what we were after. It turns out the grind is the thing you wouldn’t trade and the bonds you made can’t be faked. What we wanted is what we have and we’re not victims of anything. We dedicated our lives to each other and it’s the best feeling in the world.”
With the new album comes a new tour, and the All The Feelings run of North America rounds up Broken Social scene and Stars for 18 dates this summer, and included is a July 27 romp at MGM Music Hall in Boston — not too far from those first early Metric shows more than 20 years ago at the Paradise Rock Club (IYKYK, DFA1979 absolutely slayed on that one night back in fall ’04).
***
