Toronto’s synth-pop superstars, Metric, have announced that they will be releasing their fifth studio album this year and it will be called, Synthetica.
According to lead singer Emily Haines, the title is a made-up word inspired by the film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott. On Metric's website Haines also points to an image by Adolfo Natalini & Cristiano Toraldo Di Francia, founders of Superstudio in Italy and pioneers of the 1960's Radical architecture movement as inspiration.
(image by Adolfo Natalini & Cristiano Toraldo Di Francia via ilovemetric.com)
The band started working on Sythetica in November of 2010, right after they finished touring their hugely successful and self-released record, Fantasies. They recorded the album at Giant Studios in Toronto and New York’s Electric Lady Land with guitarist Jimmy Shaw producing. Shaw calls the recording a balance of futuristic and organic sound.
“We’ve always had a sound in our heads that we hoped to realize. We finally heard it coming back out of the speakers this time,” claims Shaw.
Even though they achieved pop status with 2009’s Fantasies (playing Letterman, contributing to the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack, playing for the Queen of England, etc.) it seems Haines is still reticent about becoming a pop star, “this record was about me saying, I'm going to give more to the music than ever, but there's no way I'm going to turn into someone like that."
The band will be releasing Sythetica on their record label, Metric Music International on June 12, 2012.
Related lihnks:
Metric's CBC Music page
Metric performing at the 2009 Polaris Music Prize Gala
posted by
Chris Kelly
on Feb 22, 2012