emily haines

Emily Haines Choir Of The Mind ROCKS LIKE: Lorde, Metric, Aimee Mann WHAT'S DIFFERENT: The breathy frontwoman for Canadian alt-rock team Metric delivers her second solo album 10 years after the release of her debut, 2007’s Knives Don’t Have Your Back. Much of the austerity of her previous LP has been replaced with bigger production […]

Metric Synthetica This review originally ran in AP 288. Metric’s genius is how they evolve from album to album, but never abandon their core strengths: zooming keyboards, pop hooks and frontwoman Emily Haines’ badass, angel-with-a-dark-side voice. The band’s fifth full-length, Synthetica, is no different. As its name implies, the album is heavy on electronic-sounding elements—guitars […]