METRIC - Live It Out Review

My boyfriend, David Greenwald, listens to a lot of indie rock. A lot. I’m no music geek, but in all honesty I think most of it sounds the same. He’s always coming to me gesticulating wildly and raving over some new album, which sounds exactly like the last album he was ready to shit himself over....full text The Canadians are here to save us. Metric are the latest in a long line of bands -- The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers among them -- that have reintroduced Americans to the beauty of melodic guitar rock. Like their Canuck contemporaries, Metric take rock 'n' roll to a smarter, more sophisticated place than do most of today's American bands....full text The Inside Pulse:
Metric are one of Canada's hidden treasures, still fairly unknown here and presumably fairly unknown with our neighbours to the south. They're just release their second album, a follow up to the strong Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? The question is, will they fumble the ball and be another victim to the Sophomore Album Curse?...full text