Metric Writing 4th Album, Emily Haines Issuing New EP

After two years of touring to promote their 2005 album, Live It Out, Metric is working on their fourth album. Frontwoman Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton are also releasing a follow-up EP to her solo record Knives Don’t Have Your Back. Her new EP is called What is Free to a Good Home? Also, Metric’s first album, Grow Up and Blow Away, will be officially released by Last Gang Records.

The members of Metric—Haines, Jimmy Shaw (guitarist), Joshua Winstead (bassist), and Joules Scott-Key (drummer)—are in pre-production at Giant Studios in Toronto. Metric started writing material together for the upcoming album back in November 2006 at Bear Creek Studios, which is North of Seattle. This is unprecedented since, up until this album, Haines and Shaw wrote the songs and then presented the material to the band. This new album will be a more collective effort. The band wants to finish the album by October.

Emily Haines and her backup band, The Soft Skeleton, will also be releasing What is Free to a Good Home? Her new EP will have five unreleased tracks from the Knives recording sessions and a remix of her song “Mostly Waving.” Knives will be released in June in the UK and Europe.

Last Gang Records will release What is Free to a Good Home? on July 24th. ITunes will premiere the record two weeks early, with an exclusive digital release on May 22nd.

Metric’s first album, Grow Up and Blow Away, will be released on June 26th. ITunes will premiere the record on June 12th, two weeks before it hits stores.

Metric will play at North American shows through the spring and summer.

Here is the track listing for What is Free to a Good Home?:

Rowboat
The Bank
Telethon
Bottom of the World
Sprig
Mostly Waving (remix)

Here is the track listing for Grow Up and Blow Away:

Grow Up
Hardwire
Rock Me Now
The Twist
On The Sly
Soft Rock Star
Raw Sugar
White Gold
London Half Life
Soft Rock Star