Metric "Fantasies" funk Georgia with David Ferguson (Sturgill

Georgia with David Ferguson (Sturgill Simpson

An internal logic strengthens everything

Songs like "Wicked Plans" and "Hack to the Bone" are both barely 80 seconds in length and proof that these dark rockers are out for swift revenge

"Have Faith in Me" in August 2009

as the boundary between ritual and reality begins to erode

Metric "Fantasies" funk Georgia with David Ferguson (SturgillShort listed for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize, Metric's fourth studio album Fantasies was written mostly in exile in Argentina with only a piano and guitar, recorded mainly at the band's own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at the legendary Electric Lady in NYC. It's gilded surfaces and textured density a heady amalgam of psychedelia, electro and rock evoke a certain dreamlike quality. There's nothing small or careful about Fantasies it's a full on