"BREATHING UNDERWATER"-METRIC
I've been a fan of Metric -- the Toronto alternative four-piece combo -- since I first heard "Gold Guns Girls" on the Zombieland soundtrack a couple of years ago. Their fifth album, Synthetica, was released last June and features a track which recently caught my ear.
The song is "Breathing Underwater," an introspective yet inspiring single delivered via the angelic voice of lead crooner (and keyboard cutie) Emily Haines. Emily handles the words effortlessly with pitch-perfect, flowing vocals… especially when she hits the chorus. Whenever she sings "It's my life," Emily emphasizes that last word with just a little bit of sass, and then her voice is delightfully double-tracked each time she gets to the song's two-word title making it virtually impossible not to sing along.
This uplifting track is layered beautifully with "Streets Have No Name"-styled guitar riffs and Emily's rolling synthetics, all of which are kept in time with Joules Scott-Key's march-like snare.
Although this indie-band has been around since 1998, I feel this is their best effort… so far. Click on the title above to sample the song for yourself. Enjoy!
