Metric announce new album, Formentera II
Metric are returning with a new album. On October 13, they’ll release Formentera II via Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers. Today, they’ve shared the first single, “Just the Once,” which features strings composed and arranged by Drew Jureka (Dua Lipa) and mixed by Stuart White (Beyoncé). Check it out below along with the artwork, tracklist and the band’s upcoming tour dates.
“The only way I can describe ‘Just The Once’ is to call it ‘regret disco’,” vocalist Emily Haines said in a statement. “It’s a song for when you need to dance yourself clean. Beneath the sparkling surface, there’s a lyrical exploration of a simple word with many meanings. Once is a word that plays a game of opposites. Once can mean once-upon-a-time and refer to a moment in the past, or it can mean someday, once something happens. And as for doing something only once versus doing something once in a while, well, I think we all know how vast the difference is between the two.”
Metric’s Fantasies was on our list of the 50 best albums of 2009.
Metric Formentera II tracklist:
- Detour Up
- Just The Once
- Stone Window
- Days Of Oblivion
- Who Would You Be For Me
- Suckers
- Nothing Is Perfect
- Descendants
- Go Ahead And Cry
Metric tour dates:
7/8 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/10 – New York, NY – Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage
7/11 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
7/13 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/14 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann
7/15 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
8/4-8/6 – St John, New Brunswick, Canada – Area 506 Festival
8/18 – St. John’s, NFLD, Canada – Churchill Park Music Festival
8/19-8/20 – Elora, Ontario, Canada – Riverfest @ Bissell Park
