Metric Dim The Lights So They Can See The Stars

Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Fantasies, the third album by Canadian pop-slingers Metric:

• “The story here though is the album’s simmering, intimate moments—and despite the fanbase-building qualities of their new-wave past, the more the group embraces an inky, ambient future, the better it could get.” [Rebecca Raber, Pitchfork]

• “Haines’ lyrics don’t always signify: ‘I’m higher than high, lower than deep,’ begins the vagued-out chorus to the slow-burning ‘Twilight Galaxy.’ But the tune is so fetching that you just don’t care.” [Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone]

• “But in the end, it’s all about the delightful sugar fix of those bountiful hooks, and Metric delivers more sweet treats than an extra-large Easter basket.” [Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times]

• “As with Live It Out, Fantasies begins to trail off mid-record, in spite of its strong start. But when it comes to dance-pop, Metric still set the standard; no one’s gonna switch back to imperial anytime soon.” [Chris Bilton, Eye Weekly]