Hello, Again, Friend Of A Friend...

This is Metric. They are awesome. If memory serves, with pretty much the exception of Alanis Morrisette or Yeah Yeah Yeahs, they're pretty much my favourite artist/band with a female singer. Sure, there's the odd song by others, but I've never really felt strongly about many bands with female singers. Mostly it's because some of them just suck, take Florence & The Machine and Paramore, for example, or because some tried to copy bands like Nirvana in the 90s, sing about feeling sad and lonely without having any real musical ability. I think of it as shite punk. Don't get me wrong, I'm not discriminating in the slightest, but aside from Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, not very much good came from the whole grunge movement, and many girl bands were just riding on their coat-tails. The introduction of the Spice Girls, and the oncoming flood of manufactured pop, didn't help either.

Metric, on the other hand, are fantastic. If you've played FIFA 10, or seen Zombieland, you'll have heard them, as Gold Guns Girls is on both. And if you've seen Scott Pilgrim vs the World, which you bloody should have by now, then when The Clash At Demonhead performs, that's actually Metric playing.

Overall, they're just a very good band.

That was it, really, just to let you know that Metric are well worth a few minutes of your time. Next time they play in Glasgow/Edinburgh, I'll be there.

Darren out, saying our common goal was waiting for the world to end!

Listening To: Metric - Black Sheep