It’s only been a year since Metric released their latest album, “Formentera”, but they’re already preparing to drop something new, as they’ve shared a teaser of a funky new track. The band shared a clip on social media, featuring 18 seconds of a song full of throbbing beats, choppy funk guitar and synths that resemble disco strings. There’s an accompanying performance video of the band. At the end, the release date flashes on the screen.
Fittingly titled “Formentera II”, the album is out on October 13th via Metric Music International / Thirty Tigers.
The album was recorded primarily at the band’s Main Street Studios outside Toronto between 2020 and 2022, and was completed at Motorbass Studios in Paris in 2023. It was co-engineered and co-produced by Jimmy Shaw, Liam O’Neil and Gus van Go.
The new single “Just the Once,” which features strings composed and arranged by Drew Jureka (Dua Lipa). The track was mixed by Stuart White (Beyoncé).
Vocalist Emily Haines said of the track in a statement:
The only way I can describe “Just the Once” is to call it “regret disco.” It’s a song for when you need to dance yourself clean. Beneath the sparkling surface, there’s a lyrical exploration of a simple word with many meanings. Once is a word that plays a game of opposites. Once can mean once-upon-a-time and refer to a moment in the past, or it can mean someday, once something happens. And as for doing something only once versus doing something once in a while, well, I think we all know how vast the difference is between the two.
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