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Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton is the side project of Emily Haines of the Canadian indie pop group Metric releasing an album in 2006 and an EP in 2007. On September 26 2006, Last Gang Records released Knives Don't Have Your Back, which was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over the previous four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse's Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and Metric's Jimmy Shaw. |
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about Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Watch: Metric discuss Synthetica, synth symphonies, song-writing, and authenticity with DiS
Date: May 24, 2012
Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw discuss their fifth studio album Synthetica with Drowned in Sound editor Sean Adams. This conversation includes chat about the writing of the album, Jimmy's seven "synth symphonies", a photograph which inspired the album, rock'n'roll's existential crisis, whether 'protest music is dead', but the bulk of the conversation swarms around the idea of authenticity ...
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Metric's New Single, 'Youth Without Youth,' Off Their Upcoming Album Date: May 01, 2012
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Metric recently released "Youth Without Youth," their first track since 2009. In a commentary track about the song , frontwoman Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw categorize it as 70s sleaze, ultimately a genre used to "disguise any kind of political statement -- or morose sadness."
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Metric talk 'gruelling' new album 'Synthetica'
Date: Apr 30, 2012
Emily Haines also tells NME about the inspiration for the title of their fifth album
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Metric's New Single, 'Youth Without Youth' -- Listen
Date: Apr 30, 2012
Canadian indie rockers Metric return today with "Youth Without Youth," the lead-off single from their upcoming album Synthetica , out June 12. The album will be released on their own Metric Music International label in conjunction with Mom + Pop. Stream the vigorous track below, along with commentary by Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, and check back soon for an exclusive interview with the ...
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Metric Offer Peek Into Creative Process Behind 'Synthetica'
Date: Apr 17, 2012
As Metric's Emily Haines wrote in a letter to fans in late February, the band's June 12 album Synthetica , "is about forcing yourself to confront what you see in the mirror when you finally stand still long enough to catch a reflection...
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It may be the offseason, but why stop the videos?
Date: Apr 14, 2012
So traffic on Twitter suggests Metric just finished studio work on its new album, so in celebration ... This isn't actually Metric, but it's a Metric song, and Brie Larson does a pretty good Emily Haines impersonation....
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It may be the offseason, but why stop the videos?
Date: Apr 13, 2012
So traffic on Twitter suggests Metric just finished studio work on its new album, so in celebration ... This isn't actually Metric, but it's a Metric song, and Brie Larson does a pretty good Emily Haines impersonation....
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Rotation: What local artists are listening to
Date: Mar 13, 2012
“There are three albums I have not been (and never will be) able to get enough of. Although they’re older releases, each album stands alone and they are entirely immortal. I’ve been using Spotify and Pandora a lot lately just to get turned on to new music, but I keep coming back to these, and probably will until I’m on my deathbed: Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton’s Knives Don’t Have Your Back ...
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