There’s something about Metric that makes me want to file their record along with the cassettes and CDs from my high school days, and I’d like to keep the information overload at bay so I can be left alone with the music.
Thanks to EMI, this album may never see the light of day.
Joel Dobbins’ free online release Investment is almost astonishingly well produced. And Dobbins certainly has an ear for the grand, but this album is too epic for its own good.
Enter Tortured Soul to save the day and gently rock you and your mother.
The single best element of this album isn’t the meld of old-timey instrumentation and modern gadgetry, but that most of Bells & Whistles sounds like entries in Pagan’s journal, with the music cast as the haze of thought.
When your loyalty is to your music and your aim to hone an endlessly diverse art rather than sell 10 million records to kids who think Eminem reinvented rap, touring is only way to put food on the table and mics in the studio.
This song will get branded into your head and you’ll be humming it’s melody in the shower tomorrow morning – be warned.