Group
Metric
indie rock
- From
- Toronto, Canada
- Since
- 1998–present
- Rating
- ★ 4.8
- Releases
- 99
- indie rock
- electronic
- new wave
- pop
- soft rock
About
Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals), and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion). The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw with the name "Mainstream". After releasing an EP titled Mainstream EP, they changed the band's name to Metric.
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The band's first studio album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003. Live It Out, released in 2005, was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the "Canadian Album of the Year" and for the 2006 Juno Awards for "Best Alternative Album". Their third studio album, Grow Up and Blow Away, was recorded in 2001; it was initially planned as their debut album, but was delayed for many years and finally released, with some changes, in 2007.
Metric's fourth album Fantasies was released in 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for "Canadian Album of the Year", and won the "Alternative Album of the Year" at the 2010 Juno Awards. Metric also won the 2010 "Group of the Year". The fifth Metric studio album, Synthetica, was released in 2012. The band won two awards at 2013 Juno Awards: "Alternative Album of the Year" for Synthetica and "Producer of the Year" for Shaw. The art director/designer/photographer Justin Broadbent also won an award for "Recording Package of the Year" for Synthetica. Metric's sixth album, Pagans in Vegas, was released in 2015, and their seventh album, Art of Doubt, was released in 2018. Their eighth and ninth full-length records, Formentera and Formentera II, were released in 2022 and 2023 respectively. This was followed by their tenth album, Romanticize the Dive, in 2026.
In 2023, Metric ranked 41st on Rolling Stone's The 50 Greatest Canadian Artists of All Time.
Members
Discography
Albums
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Grow Up and Blow Away Apple Music
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? Apple Music
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Live It Out Apple Music
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Fantasies
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Synthetica (Reflections) Apple Music
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Synthetica Apple Music
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Pagans in Vegas Apple Music
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Art of Doubt Apple Music
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Formentera Apple Music
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Formentera II Apple Music
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Romanticize the Dive
EPs
Singles
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Romanticize the Dive (From the Netflix Series "Nobody Wants This" Season 3)
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Time Is a Bomb
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Victim of Luck
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Collect Call (Adventure Club Remix)
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Nothing Is Perfect
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Just the Once
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Who Would You Be For Me
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I Will Never Settle
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What Feels Like Eternity
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All Comes Crashing Apple Music
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Doomscroller Apple Music
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False Dichotomy
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Cascades (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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Now or Never Now (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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Live It Out (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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The Police and the Private (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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Auld Anxi
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Empty (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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Common Lives Apple Music
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Dark Saturday (Dirt Road version) Apple Music
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Love You Back
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Risk Apple Music
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Dressed to Suppress Apple Music
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Now or Never Now Apple Music
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Dark Saturday Apple Music
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The Shade
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Cascades Apple Music
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The Governess
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Too Bad, So Sad
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Fortunes
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Artificial Nocture (Jacob Van Hage Remix)
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Youth Without Youth
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Radio Singles
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Breathing Underwater
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Front Row
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Waves
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Sick Muse
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Gold Guns Girls
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Gimme Sympathy
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Help I’m Alive
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Empty Apple Music
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Monster Hospital Apple Music
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Poster of a Girl
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Combat Baby
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Dead Disco
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Grow Up and Blow Away Apple Music
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Collect Call
Live
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Live at the Funhouse: Volume 2
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Live at the Funhouse: Volume 3
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Live at the Funhouse: Volume 1
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Live at the Funhouse: Volume 4
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Selections from "Dreams So Real"
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Dreams So Real
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Spotify Sessions
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Metric Spotify Exclusive Acoustic Session
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Always On My Mind (triple j Like a Version)
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iTunes Session Apple Music
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Big Orange Studios, Austin, TX
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The End Has No End (triple j Like a Version)
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Live In Session On MBE - KCRW FM
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Metric: Live at Metropolis
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Live At Metropolis E.P.
Compilations
Other
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Help I'm Alive (Bynx rework)
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All Comes Crashing (CVCHE remix) Apple Music
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Black Sheep Apple Music
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Breathing Underwater (CHR Summer mix)
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Celebrate (Blood in the Pen remix)
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The Shade (demo)
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The Fatal Gift
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Electrified Fantasies
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Cosmopolis: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Fantasies Flashback
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Black Sheep Apple Music
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Eclipse (All Yours) Apple Music
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Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix) Apple Music
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Combat Baby (demo)
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Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, 20-10-2009
Links
Listen
Official
Concerts
Reference
- AllMusic
- BBC Music
- Discogs
- IMDb
- Last.fm
- muzikum.eu
- Genius
- jaxsta.com
- id.loc.gov
- catalogue.bnf.fr
- d-nb.info
- imvdb.com
- rateyourmusic.com
- 45cat.com
- 45cat.com
- idref.fr
- librarything.com
- musik-sammler.de
- muziekweb.nl
- spirit-of-rock.com
- whosampled.com
- maniadb.com
- worldcat.org
- purevolume.com
- SecondHandSongs
- VIAF
- Wikidata
Tags
- canada
- female vocalists
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 4449ccf6-c948-4d33-aa97-b6ad98ce4b5b
- ISNI
- 0000000110905178
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 14 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.