Fantasies

Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Emily Haines delivers big refrains and spiky hooks, cooing about love on 'Sick Muse' and going dark on 'Help I'm Alive'..." Spin (p.80) - "Ever the empathizer, Haines calmly untangles her characters' despair, whether it's over the quietly pulsing 'Collect Call' or the driving electro rock of 'Satellite Mind.'" Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "[Metric] amp up the melodies on their fourth album, tapping synthed-out industrial beats to vent their frustrations about the state of modern affairs." -- Grade: B+ Alternative Press (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "FANTASIES flows seamlessly from song to engaging song....It's a layering of everything Metric have created in the past with a sense of immediate passion." Billboard (p.37) - "[T]he Canadian quartet continues to polish its spacey, new wave-colored sound that's heavy with buzzing synths and echoed vocals." Q (Magazine) (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's an accomplished act of reconfiguration, brimful of potential singles, chiefly the tub-thumping 'Stadium Love' and 'Gimme Sympathy'..." Blender (Magazine) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] adds brawn, finesse and grandeur to their new-wave drive and Morse-code guitar scrapes..." Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]here is a dreamy quality here that eschews the vague, easy rhymes and lyrical polemics of past Metric records in favor of romance and sex."