Metric begin work on new album

Metric have revealed that they are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to 2006's 'Live It Out'.

Speaking to NME.COM, frontwoman Emily Haines disclosed that she and guitarist James Shaw, along with Sebastian Grainger from Death From Above 1979, have purchased a studio in Toronto, where Metric are recording their new album.

"We just got this amazing space and the first recording and writing sessions for Metric are in there right now," said Haines.

"We've written about 15 songs. We're starting to hone in and choose some of our favourites," she added.

Haines said that the band plan to release the as-yet-untitled album some time next year, and that it has an upbeat, carefree atmosphere.

"It'll be a summer album, regardless of when it's released," she said. "It definitely will have a summer atmosphere."

The band will preview the new material during a handful of Canadian shows scheduled for later this month.

"We're doing a few shows in that'll be strictly new material," Haines said. "We'll play eight new songs and then an encore."

The dates are:

Edmonton, AB Starlite (May 14)
Edmonton, AB Starlite (15, 16)
Calgary, AB Whisky (17)
Victoria, BC Curling Rink (19)

Metric are also slated to perform at Vancouver's Virgin Festival on May 21 and Toronto's Virgin Festival on September 9.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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