Our reviewer called Metric’s latest record “sweet and sophisticated”, which is also a pretty good description of the band too, now approaching their fifteenth year in existence (although only on their fifth album).
James and Emily were in the UK back in April and found to time to come meet us for a Best Fit Session – the title track from Synthetica.
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