Album Review: Metric Teach You The “Art of Doubt”
By now, Metric have solidified themselves as artists. Creating sounds that churn with the sultriness of darkness, and the rare bursts of liberation we feel when we stop fighting Hell. It may seem toxic, wrong, or chaotic, but there are moments when we do not fight the fall. We simply leap, and hope that a bed is on the bottom rather than bedrock. In their seventh album, Art of Doubt, Metric explore the anxieties we still feel even when a crash is inevitable.
Sometimes, we think paranoia is us being protective and stress is us being selective. The truth is they are not at all related. Anxiety is not you being cautious or thoughtful; it really is you being anxious. Thus, Metric are creating the songs that push you to realize this, and they are the perfect rock n’ roll band to do so. From Paul McCartney to Paul Weller, legends are creating songs that are advice on how to be happy, wild, and even sexual. There comes a point, in life, when your self-doubts either exhaust you to death or tired you enough to start living without them. Hence, tracks like “Die Happy,” “No Light In The Horizon,” “Seven Rules,” and “Risk,” have Emily Haines going all IDGAF.
Metric – Dressed to Suppress – Official Music Video [HD]
Emily Haines is life goals. She struts her voice as if it is wearing high-leather boots and walking like Nancy Sinatra all over any loser. Yet, “the loser” is not just a person, but any state or standard of being that made misery more normal than joy. Thus, her voice in songs such as, “Dress to Suppress,” “Holding Out,” and “Love You Back,” is like a rock n’ roll rake; taking in all scraggy, scratched leaves of negativity and piling them into garbage. This woman has been through too much to still not go for or do what she wants, and that epiphany is one we all should/ will attain through experience.
They say age makes you wiser, but they also say the years make you less bolder. I say wisdom is a choice, and boldness is solely transformed into skill and intelligence. Every acoustic/ melody in Metric’s Art of Doubt feels smartly machinated to turn your life/their soundscape into a transition from light to dark. The only difference is we have to fall to see where we land, and Haines’ vocality is just the push you need to let go. For More Information On Metric And To Buy Art of Doutn on September 21 Click Here.
