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LIVE IT OUT
LAST GANG
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This Toronto quartet make synth-streaked dance rock for clued-in scenesters exhausted by the scene. On Metric’s excellent 2003 debut, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, singer Emily Haines sang lines like "If you’re looking for something lifelike, hit a sardine nightclub" over lightly churning arrangements; her sarcasm was as salty as her melodies were sweet. Old World won the band a devoted underground following, and that left Metric in a peculiar position: how ably can you critique the indie world’s hothouse solipsism when you’re a part of that world’s ruling elite? They don’t dodge the question on Live It Out. "Monster hospital, can you please release me?" Haines begs in "Monster Hospital," one of several tunes in which she replicates the bratty coo of iconographic Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O. In the chorus, she laments, "I fought the war, but the war won." She could be registering her disgust with the current situation in Iraq, but with this band it’s easier to hear "Monster Hospital" as an indictment of the group’s culture — and of Metric’s inability to resist its pull. Metric + Most Serene Republic | Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston | Oct 2 | 617.288.6000
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