METRIC - Formentera II - CD [OCT 13]

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Announced on the one year anniversary of Formentera, Formentera II is the surprise continuation of the story they began in last year's critically acclaimed album. Two sides of the same coin, they live in the same sonic world- but if Formentera was the dark, insular obsession that stemmed from the lockdown, Formentera II is the lighter side of being able to explore again.

“In 2022, we released the first half of our double album and we called it Formentera," explains Metric's Emily Haines. "These nine songs are the second half of the whole, but linear time is a construct, and in fact these songs were mostly written and recorded before the nine songs that are on the first album, Formentera. What now? The years 2020-2023 are a backward / forward blur for many people on planet Earth, and the way we released this body of work is part of our testament to that uniquely weird shared experience. Like the first nine tracks, the songs of Formentera II were recorded at Main Street Studios, a transformed church in a rural hamlet, with our tried and true co-engineering & co-production trinity of Jimmy Shaw, Liam O’Neil, and Gus Van Go guiding the unpredictable process to completion. Todor Kobakov, our longtime friend and collaborator, introduced us to Drew Jurecka, who composed, arranged, and recorded the strings on “Just The Once.”

"In a geographic twist, we finished this album at Motorbass Studios in Paris, a place haunted by artists we adore, at the end of our UK/European Doomscroller tour. That’s Where Motorbass engineer Antoine Poyeton recorded two essential last moments: Jimmy playing Frank Zappa’s ‘53 Les Paul (courtesy of our friend Matt Lucasman) on “Who Would You Be For Me,” and Joules playing the outro drums on “Go Ahead and Cry.” It was an aesthetic victory of sorts to finish the closing song of our first ever double album in a city that is so damn sexy, after all those shapeless lockdown winters in the remote plaid Canadian wilderness we call home. We returned from Europe and sent everything to Stuart White in Los Angeles to mix. Jimmy and Stu went through the final subtle tweaks, sent it Colin Leonard for mastering, and it was done. So yeah, like I said in the credits on the first album, we turned a page in our minds to create an escape and we called it Formentera. Formentera II brings us to our eighteen song conclusion.” 

Tracklist:

1. Detour Up
2. Just The Once
3. Stone Window
4. Days of Oblivion
5. Who Would You Be For Me?
6. Suckers
7. Nothing Is Perfect
8. Descendants
9. Go Ahead and Cry