Metric "Fantasies" 2025-03-14 1980 was a big year

1980 was a big year for Saturday Night Live alumni's John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

"I'd rather eat decomposed fish than listen to this

another instant classic

Chicago blues (Midnight Rambler) and country rock on the title track

drummer Kye Cherry

Metric "Fantasies" 2025-03-14 1980 was a big yearShort 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