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Following her more intimate solo fare, Broken Social Scenester Emily Haines hikes up her skirt for Fantasies, Metric’s third and most unabashedly commercial LP, heavy on heartbreak (“Stadium Love”), New Wave (“Help I’m Alive”), and huge choruses. While everything could be trimmed, Jimmy Shaw’s razor guitar in “Sick Muse” and “Front Row” keeps things edgy.
This article appears in May 8 • 2009.
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