METRIC!

Last night I went to see Metric in Orlando. Metric is Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw, Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott Key. I am always surprised how many people don't know of this band. I think that comes from the fact that their last album was self-released, so they did not have the support of a major label. The fourth album is called Fantasies, and it was released in 2010 and it is a fantastic album. I highly recommend it. It won Album of the Year at the Canadian Juno Awards in 2010 and might just be on my top 5 albums of all time list, its that good. They just released their fifth studio album, Synthetica, and I have only listened to it a few times so far.

OK, so with an album name like Synthetica, you would expect some synthesizers and you would be right. But what I did not expect (or remember from the last time I saw them) is the their lead singer, Emily Haines, plays a Sequential Circuits Pro-One. Front and center on the stage is our old friend from 1980.

Now that I know what to listen for, it turns out the Pro-One is part of their sound and it is all over the place.

Here is a link to an old performance (lame crowd, but a good video of the Pro-One)


Here is a little clip of the guitarist Talking about the Pro-One.

From last night:

 

 I encourage you to check them out.

Metric's home page