Metric’s music is just getting better. Well, it’s been a long while since we heard of this popular and much loved pop/punk rock band; six years to be exact. With the last album, Our World Underground, Where Are You Now? released in 2003, it’s been a long wait for Metric to come out with a new record. Many had thought they’d fallen off the map, but that was not the case and that fact surprised many others, not just me.

With a long wait always comes some type of brilliance, and this album is jam packed with songs that make you want to dance and replay. Fantasies is the title of the album and it speaks for itself. The music is much tighter and the lyrics even more meaningful and cohesive than before. From “Sick Muse,” a song that’s about love and money to “Front Row,” a song about bitterness and a bottle, this album is full of everything a band should be, love, money, passion, liquor and much more. Metric’s Emily Haines has a way of screaming out her feelings that gives each song it’s special vibe, and it’s fully heard in this collection of 10 tunes.

The band itself has remained the same. Consisting of the intense and often times refereed to as a bit crazy: Haines on vocals and keyboards with her left hand man, Jimmy Shaw on vocals and guitars. Then there’s the grand Joshua Winstead on bass, and, of course, the amazing beat keeper Joules Scott Key on drums. The band managed to stick together during the years as this new album has come together, and thank goodness, because Metric would not be the same without the four of them in it.

The last album was good, and “Dead Disco,” the hit song on the last album is still a popular one, but Fantasies overpasses the last album 10 fold. Every song on the album has potential radio fire power when it comes to the vibes and the oh, so dancy beats.

Track Listing:
1. Help I’m Alive
2. Sick Muse
3. Satellite Mind
4. Twilight Galaxy
5. Gold Guns Girls
6. Simme Sympathy
7. Collect Call
8. Front Row
9. Blindness
10. Stadium Love