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EMILY HAINES - Knives Don't Have Your Back
| Lost At Sea magazine | Emily Haines, front woman for the band Metric, has the keys to her closet and she’s opened it up for all to take a gander at her collection of skeletons.
Knives Don’t Have Your Back, Haines’ solo debut, possesses the air of Elliot Smith’s ethereality and is backed by Spoon-like piano-driven rhythms and hooks. An inelegant, recreational air balances the beauty....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | In the liner notes of her solo album, Metric frontwoman Emily Haines displays an old textbook illustration of the human heart, blown up so that it fills the translucent X-rayed ribcage on the page before it. White arrows, a new feature added to an old drawing, penetrate the heart from all directions....full text |
| | Slant Magazine | | Emily Haines (of Broken Social Scene and Metric) strikes out on her own with Knives Don't Have Your Back, a collection of quiet, introspective piano ballads that are every bit as beautiful as the album's packaging. Haines's languid, melancholic compositions are reminiscent of Kristen Hersh's solo material, particularly on "Crowd Surf Off A Cliff," one of the album's many wrenching love songs....full text |
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