Metric

Sporting the dual engines of Emily Haines' darkly powerful vocals and the nimble, versatile indie alt-rock punch of the band, Metric began life as a new-wave-inspired act but have since captured arena-sized crowds with their outsized yet still bleedingly human songs. Early albums like 2005's Live It Out featured spiky guitars, sharp synths, and jerky tempos, then beginning with 2009's Fantasies, the group added space to the arrangements in a successful effort to move to the main stage, while Haines truly came into her own as a performer and writer. Subsequent albums stuck to t...