Metric on their double album, touring with Noel Gallagher and tackling “toxic positivity”
nme.comMetric has spoken to NME about the second half of their ‘Formentera’ project, their recent US tour with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and how she tackled her “toxic positivity”.The nine-track ‘Formentera II’, released last week, was largely written and recorded at the same time as last year’s ‘Formentera’ album and completed at Motorbass Studios in Paris earlier this year.
To mark the release, Haines and Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw recently played a series of acoustic shows in the UK, following on from a run of US and Canada dates celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’Haines caught up with NME just after their London gig, which she described as “a full 10 out of 10”“We sit down at a piano with a guitar, and I’d already planned the setlist that people will maybe sing along on the last few songs of the whole show,” she said. “Instead, from the very beginning of the show, it was like a choir and everyone was good.
They were singing every word. For the whole night, everyone just sang. “It was so hot in there! It reminded me of the early days when we were touring the UK with Test Icicles and DFA 1979 in the indie sleaze era and Dev [Hynes] crowd-surfing in an Academy property.
It was kind of like the punk rock sweatiness but quiet and with a choir, it was surreal.”The dates came after Metric’s US tour with Noel Gallagher and Garbage. “We had a great time,” said Hynes. “Everyone was lovely.
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