As previously reported, Metric has announced that its fifth studio album Synthetica will be released worldwide on June 12. Today, the band announced more details about the forthcoming release. The first single will be called “Youth Without Youth” and, according to a statement from the band, tackles “the topic of a fraying social state with bristling energy, lyrical complexity and a momentary breakdown guaranteed to get crowds jumping along with the song’s driving rhythm.”
“I've always wanted to do a song with the Gary Glitter beat,” said Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw.
The band also released the cover of the album (pictured above), which was created by photographer/designer Justin Broadbent, the man behind this popular photo of rapper Shad. The band claims that they wanted something that was “provoking and a little disorientating.”
According to Broadbent, “For the Synthetica cover I tried to create a beautiful landscape that doesn't sit comfortably with the viewer. We are disoriented among the clouds, flipped in a room without walls. There is a synthetic perfection to the gold curtains. Like fresh lipstick, precious but temporary.”
Lastly, Metric also released the track listing to the record, which is as follows:
1. “Artificial Nocturne”
2. “Youth Without Youth”
3. “Speed The Collapse”
4. “Breathing Underwater”
5. “Dreams So Real”
6. “Lost Kitten”
7. “The Void”
8. “Synthetica”
9. “Clone”
10. “The Wanderlust”
11. “Nothing But Time”
Synthetica will be self-released on the band’s own label, MMI, and distributed by Universal Music in Canada on June 12.
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