A relevant-as-ever album with a nod to sci-fi themes seems fitting as this is perhaps the best marriage of their older, and newer sounds
Synthetica looks before it leaps, pausing to reconnect with its past, then easing into the future.
On Synthetica, Metric explores the dark side of an artificial world, while simultaneously appropriating it and offering new twists on the band’s familiar aesthetic by turning away from their new wave roots.
As the band reach more people with a growing fan base, they're not shying away from the same driving rhythms and melodies that colored their earliest songs.
Synthetica is something of a polemic, but Haines' moments of ambivalence are what make the record compelling.
There's certainly more than enough decent songs here to satisfy the faithful who may have been put off by the lacklustre Fantasies.
Continuing down Fantasies’ arena-rock/new-wave trajectory and committing to it even more rigidly, the appropriately titled Synthetica nearly always sounds wonderful but often feels empty.
Synthetica preps Metric to hit the masses head-on, and while the presentation is up to snuff, it’s hard to get all that excited about the individual tracks.
While there is that staple sound they’ve gained popularity from, since “FANTASIES”; there’s a lack of forward momentum driving each track.
Great stuff on here of course, but something is missing. Something is holding me back from really loving this. That being said, I still really enjoyed this and would recommend.
I love this album but something is missing but i cant say what. The best songs on here are Synthetica and Artificial Nocturne and the worst song is wonderlust
Solid album sure but the way Lost Kitten ATE the rest of the tracks was crazy to me. Wish they did more lost kitten esque songs
1 | Artificial Nocturne 5:42 | 86 |
2 | Youth Without Youth 4:17 | 85 |
3 | Speed the Collapse 3:42 | 83 |
4 | Breathing Underwater 3:56 | 81 |
5 | Dreams So Real 2:40 | 79 |
6 | Lost Kitten 3:16 | 86 |
7 | The Void 3:17 | 76 |
8 | Synthetica 3:54 | 86 |
9 | Clone 5:13 | 79 |
10 | The Wanderlust 3:10 | 66 |
11 | Nothing But Time 4:04 | 77 |