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Universal acclaim- based on 19 Ratings
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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Jul 8, 2022
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Jul 8, 2022An incredible album. I'm in love with the sound, and a mixture of rock and indie is chef's kiss. I love you, Metric.
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Jul 8, 2022Beautiful work. Particularly among fans of Pagans in Vegas and Synthetica. Thank you so much, Metric!
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Jul 14, 2022Metric isn't new. But they're not old
Formentera isn't a breakthrough album- Metric already had that.
Life is short. This album stretches time.
The first track Doomscroller is a crazy choice-- I respect that and continue to follow Metric. The other tracks are pretty good. I expect this album sounds perfect beneath summer stars in Canada.
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Jul 18, 2022On their eighth album, Formentera, they sound as vital as ever, with the creative nucleus of Emily Haines and James Shaw once more pushing the possibilities of what Metric are.
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Jul 12, 2022It doesn’t all quite land. ... But with the glow of “Doomscroller” acting as a foil, even those lesser songs still manage to productively contribute to that contradictory posture of solidarity-oriented striving that suffuses Formentera.
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Jul 12, 2022The whole album is pulsing with both those elements [energy and emotion] and comes across like the group's most important album, only without the kind of pretension that kind of thing often entails. It's more that Formentera captures the warring emotions, steady fears, and crushing uncertainty of the era it was made in and delivers it all wrapped up in triumphant and true songs that one will want to spin again and again.