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The vinyl artwork for Metric’s new album, Formentera, includes a motto that sums up the past few years: This Is What Happened. It’s an understatement that manages to say everything.

Even real places become imaginary when they are so far out of reach. Named for an idyllic island near Ibiza off the coast of Spain, Formentera is a place that, for Metric, only existed on a page in a “dream destinations” travel book that lay open on a deskin the new recording studio that guitarist Jimmy Shaw built in 2020, in a rural hamlet north of Toronto. This is the setting where the band’s eighth album took shape.

Metric’s sound is both genre-defying and genre-defining. Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw, bassist Joshua Winstead and drummer Joules Scott Key started playing together in NYC in 2001. They are just getting started.

Top tracks

01
Black Sheep (Brie Larson Vocal Version)
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Black Sheep (Brie Larson Vocal Version)
04:54
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Gold Guns Girls
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Fantasies
04:05
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
01
Help I'm Alive
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Fantasies
04:46
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
06
Gimme Sympathy
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Fantasies
03:54
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
06
Lost Kitten
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Synthetica
03:16
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
08
Synthetica
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Synthetica
03:54
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
04
Combat Baby
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:30
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
04
Breathing Underwater
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Synthetica
03:56
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
09
Dead Disco
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:26
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
07
Dressed to Suppress
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Art of Doubt
05:42
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
03
Rock Me Now
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:52
03
The Shade
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Pagans in Vegas
03:36
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
05
Poster Of A Girl
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Live It Out
04:45
06
Monster Hospital
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Live It Out
03:30
04
Now or Never Now
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Art of Doubt
06:19
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
03
Satellite Mind
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Fantasies
03:42
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
02
Sick Muse
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Fantasies
04:17
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
06
Wet Blanket
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:08
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
07
Raw Sugar
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:38
01
Eclipse (All Yours)
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Eclipse (All Yours)
03:21
03
Speed The Collapse
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Synthetica
03:42
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
02
Youth Without Youth
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Synthetica
04:17
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
04
Twilight Galaxy
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Fantasies
04:53
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Joshua Winstead
02
All Comes Crashing
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Formentera
04:23
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
01
Grow Up and Blow Away
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:13
01
Who Would You Be For Me
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Who Would You Be For Me
05:01
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
01
Artificial Nocturne
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Synthetica
05:42
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Art of Doubt
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Art of Doubt
04:51
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
07
False Dichotomy
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Formentera
03:39
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
04
Formentera
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Formentera
06:17
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
02
Just The Once
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Formentera II
03:24
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
08
Front Row
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Fantasies
03:34
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
01
Dark Saturday
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Art of Doubt
03:50
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
10
Stadium Love
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Fantasies
04:13
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Joshua Winstead
01
IOU
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:22
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
02
Hardwire
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:42
04
Days Of Oblivion
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Formentera II
05:59
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
08
Risk
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Art of Doubt
05:24
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
04
The Twist
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:37
09
Blindness
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Fantasies
04:26
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
03
Succexy
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:05
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
03
What Feels Like Eternity
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Formentera
03:37
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
01
Empty (Dirt Road)
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Empty (Dirt Road)
05:18
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
02
Love You Back
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Art of Doubt
04:07
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
03
Stone Window
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Formentera II
04:00
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
01
Empty
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Live It Out
05:55
05
On the Sly
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:58
06
I Will Never Settle
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Formentera
05:00
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
04
Celebrate
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Pagans in Vegas
04:00
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
02
Glass Ceiling
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Live It Out
03:56
11
Nothing But Time
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Synthetica
04:04
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
08
The List
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
02:53
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
01
Doomscroller
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Formentera
10:28
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
01
Artificial Nocture (Jacob Van Hage Remix)
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Artificial Nocturne (Jacob Van Hage Remix)
05:10
Composers: James Shaw - Emily Haines
01
Nothing Is Perfect
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Nothing Is Perfect
03:30
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
06
Soft Rock Star
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:01
01
Cascades (Dirt Road Version)
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Cascades (Dirt Road Version)
03:04
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
01
Now or Never Now (Dirt Road Version)
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Now or Never Now (Dirt Road Version)
03:38
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
10
Live It Out
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Live It Out
03:44
07
Collect Call
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Fantasies
04:46
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
09
Clone
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Synthetica
05:13
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
01
Detour Up
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Formentera II
03:38
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Dreams So Real
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
02:40
12
No Lights on the Horizon
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Art of Doubt
06:35
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
07
The Void
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:17
05
Cascades
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Pagans in Vegas
05:24
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
09
Paths in the Sky
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Formentera
04:50
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
08
Oh Please
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Formentera
04:12
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
06
Suckers
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Formentera II
04:29
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
01
Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)
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Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)
05:15
09
Blind Valentine
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Pagans in Vegas
03:22
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
01
The Police and the Private (Dirt Road Version)
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The Police and the Private (Dirt Road Version)
03:07
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
08
Other Side
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Pagans in Vegas
03:51
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
09
Go Ahead And Cry
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Formentera II
04:03
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
11
Anticipate
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Art of Doubt
03:45
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
08
The Police and the Private
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Live It Out
03:44
08
Descendants
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Formentera II
05:54
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
04
Too Little Too Late
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Live It Out
04:22
02
Hustle Rose
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
05:33
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
10
The Wanderlust
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Synthetica
03:10
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
06
For Kicks
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Pagans in Vegas
04:56
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
03
Die Happy
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Art of Doubt
04:05
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
09
Seven Rules
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Art of Doubt
05:09
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
10
Holding Out
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Art of Doubt
03:58
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Justin Meldal-Johnsen - Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
02
Fortunes
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Pagans in Vegas
04:12
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
05
Enemies of the Ocean
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Formentera
05:13
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
10
Love Is A Place
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
02:09
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
07
Too Bad, So Sad
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Pagans in Vegas
03:24
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
06
Underline the Black
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Art of Doubt
04:36
Writer: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines / Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
01
Lie Lie Lie
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Pagans in Vegas
04:15
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
07
Patriarch On a Vespa
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Live It Out
04:33
09
London Halflife
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Grow Up And Blow Away
02:42
10
Soft Rock Star [Jimmy vs. Joe Mix]
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:24
15
Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic)
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:07
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Calculation Theme
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:32
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
07
On a Slow Night
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:37
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
01
Live It Out (Dirt Road Version)
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Live It Out (Dirt Road Version)
03:51
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
03
Handshakes
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Live It Out
03:06
08
White Gold
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:10
01
Risk (Radio Edit)
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Risk (Radio Edit)
04:37
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric

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  • Discography
Albums
(P) 2023 Metric Music International, Inc. marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
13-10-2023
Formentera II
01
Detour Up
Metric
Formentera II
03:38
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
02
Just The Once
Metric
Formentera II
03:24
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
03
Stone Window
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Formentera II
04:00
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
04
Days Of Oblivion
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Formentera II
05:59
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Who Would You Be For Me
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Formentera II
05:01
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
06
Suckers
Metric
Formentera II
04:29
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
07
Nothing Is Perfect
Metric
Formentera II
03:30
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
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(P) 2022 Metric Music International, Inc. marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
08-07-2022
Formentera
01
Doomscroller
Metric
Formentera
10:28
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
02
All Comes Crashing
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Formentera
04:23
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
03
What Feels Like Eternity
Metric
Formentera
03:37
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
04
Formentera
Metric
Formentera
06:17
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
05
Enemies of the Ocean
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Formentera
05:13
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
06
I Will Never Settle
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Formentera
05:00
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
07
False Dichotomy
Metric
Formentera
03:39
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw - Liam O'Neil
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℗ 2018 MMI
21-09-2018
Art of Doubt
01
Dark Saturday
Metric
Art of Doubt
03:50
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
02
Love You Back
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Art of Doubt
04:07
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
03
Die Happy
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Art of Doubt
04:06
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
04
Now or Never Now
Metric
Art of Doubt
06:20
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Justin Meldal-Johnsen - Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
05
Art of Doubt
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Art of Doubt
04:51
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
06
Underline the Black
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Art of Doubt
04:36
Writer: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines / Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
07
Dressed to Suppress
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Art of Doubt
05:43
Writer: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
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℗ 2018 MMI/Crystal Math Music distributed by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
21-09-2018
Art of Doubt
01
Dark Saturday
Metric
Art of Doubt
03:50
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
02
Love You Back
Metric
Art of Doubt
04:07
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
03
Die Happy
Metric
Art of Doubt
04:05
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
04
Now or Never Now
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Art of Doubt
06:19
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
05
Art of Doubt
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Art of Doubt
04:50
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
06
Underline the Black
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Art of Doubt
04:35
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
07
Dressed to Suppress
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Art of Doubt
05:42
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Metric
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℗ 2015 MMI
18-09-2015
Pagans in Vegas
01
Lie Lie Lie
Metric
Pagans in Vegas
04:15
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
02
Fortunes
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Pagans in Vegas
04:12
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
03
The Shade
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Pagans in Vegas
03:36
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
04
Celebrate
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Pagans in Vegas
04:00
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
05
Cascades
Metric
Pagans in Vegas
05:24
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
06
For Kicks
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Pagans in Vegas
04:56
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
07
Too Bad, So Sad
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Pagans in Vegas
03:24
Composers: Jimmy Shaw - Emily Haines
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MMI under exclusive license from Metric Productions
21-08-2012
Synthetica Reflections
01
Reflection #1
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Synthetica Reflections
01:33
02
Reflection #2
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Synthetica Reflections
02:31
03
Reflection #3
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Synthetica Reflections
01:33
04
Reflection #4
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Synthetica Reflections
02:52
05
Reflection #5
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Synthetica Reflections
02:52
06
Reflection #6
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Synthetica Reflections
01:54
07
Reflection #7
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Synthetica Reflections
01:25
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℗ 2012 MMI under exclusive license to Mom+Pop
01-01-2012
Synthetica
01
Artificial Nocturne
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Synthetica
05:42
02
Youth Without Youth
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Synthetica
04:17
03
Speed The Collapse
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Synthetica
03:42
04
Breathing Underwater
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Synthetica
03:56
05
Dreams So Real
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Synthetica
02:40
06
Lost Kitten
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Synthetica
03:16
07
The Void
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Synthetica
03:17
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℗ 2012 MMI
01-01-2012
Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
01
Artificial Nocturne
Metric
Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
05:42
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
02
Youth Without Youth
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
04:17
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
03
Speed The Collapse
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:42
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
04
Breathing Underwater
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:56
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
05
Dreams So Real
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
02:40
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
06
Lost Kitten
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:16
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
07
The Void
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Synthetica (Deluxe Edition)
03:17
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
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℗ 2009 MMI
31-03-2009
Fantasies
01
Help I'm Alive
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Fantasies
04:46
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
02
Sick Muse
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Fantasies
04:17
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
03
Satellite Mind
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Fantasies
03:42
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
04
Twilight Galaxy
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Fantasies
04:53
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw - Joshua Winstead
05
Gold Guns Girls
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Fantasies
04:05
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
06
Gimme Sympathy
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Fantasies
03:54
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
07
Collect Call
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Fantasies
04:46
Composers: Emily Haines - Jimmy Shaw
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2007 Last Gang Records Inc.
12-06-2007
Grow Up And Blow Away
01
Grow Up and Blow Away
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:13
02
Hardwire
Metric
Grow Up And Blow Away
04:42
03
Rock Me Now
Metric
Grow Up And Blow Away
03:52
04
The Twist
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:37
05
On the Sly
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:58
06
Soft Rock Star
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Grow Up And Blow Away
04:01
07
Raw Sugar
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Grow Up And Blow Away
03:38
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2005 Last Gang Records Inc.
04-10-2005
Live It Out
01
Empty
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Live It Out
05:55
02
Glass Ceiling
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Live It Out
03:56
03
Handshakes
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Live It Out
03:06
04
Too Little Too Late
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Live It Out
04:22
05
Poster Of A Girl
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Live It Out
04:45
06
Monster Hospital
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Live It Out
03:30
07
Patriarch On a Vespa
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Live It Out
04:33
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2003 Everloving, Inc.
29-07-2003
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
01
IOU
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:22
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
02
Hustle Rose
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
05:33
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
03
Succexy
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:05
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
04
Combat Baby
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:30
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
05
Calculation Theme
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
03:32
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
06
Wet Blanket
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:08
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
07
On a Slow Night
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
04:37
Writer: Emily Haines / James Shaw / Composers: Emily Haines / James Shaw
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Singles
(P) 2023 Metric Music International, Inc. marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
08-09-2023
Who Would You Be For Me
01
Who Would You Be For Me
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Who Would You Be For Me
05:01
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
(P) 2023 Metric Music International, Inc. marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
11-08-2023
Nothing Is Perfect
01
Nothing Is Perfect
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Nothing Is Perfect
03:30
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw
(P) 2023 Metric Music International, Inc. marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
07-07-2023
Just The Once
01
Just The Once
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Just The Once
03:24
Composers: Emily Haines - James Shaw