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EMILY HAINES - Knives Don't Have Your Back
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| MusicOMH.com |
| If Emily Haines was an animal, she'd be a swan. Elegant, graceful and symbolic maybe, but get too close and you'll probably get bitten. She has the hush-hush voice of something ethereal, almost spirit-like in its delivery, which is comforting, like the warm feeling you get when you drink whiskey or being in bed when it's cold outside. But when you parry this with an often poignant, sometimes political subject matter, there is a definite sense of anxiety and mistrust which forms the spine of Knives Don't Have Your Back, a feeling that underneath wistful piano keys and that soothing tone, bigger demons lie....full text |
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| JunkMedia |
| Well, it’s about time: Emily Haines, the frontwoman for Toronto’s indie-dance rock band Metric, part-time member of Broken Social Scene, and guest singer for such bands as The Stills and Stars has finally released her first solo record; and the sound is far more haunting and lyrical then anything pumped out of her fierce and mighty lungs as the Metric’s songstress. Haines has produced an album that will shock her fans and garner new admirers....full text |
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| Spin |
| Occasionally beautiful and often brain-meltingly boring, the solo debut of Metric's Emily Haines is mostly frustrating. Songs such as "The Maid Needs a Maid" boast clever wordplay and Haines' girlish contralto, but the spare instrumentation (usually just piano) and samey melodies wear you down. Still, there are some saucy moments, like on the otherwise sluggish "The Lottery," when Haines sings about wanting "what everyone wanted since bras started burning up ribs in the '60s." ...full text |
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