METRIC – To begin ‘Pagans in Vegas’ Tour this October

METRIC - To begin 'Pagans in Vegas' Tour this October

With the release of their forthcoming album ‘Pagans in Vegas’ now imminent, METRIC line up a slew of tour dates in support of the record this October. The UK leg will take place around the highly anticipated release of the sixth studio album by the Canadian alt-rockers.

Metric’s breakout new record ‘Pagans In Vegas’ will be the first of two companion albums from the band, with the second expected in 2016. Their time spent writing in 2014 – Shaw at his studio in Toronto, delving into a wall of modular synthesizers and Haines with nothing more than an acoustic guitar in Nicaragua and Spain –yielded an unprecedented amount of material that revealed itself across at least two major musical veins. Realising they had composed enough music for two very different albums, they decided to let each collection of songs stand on their own.

Metric have packed their new album with reverent references to artists who have inspired them, from Depeche Mode, New Order, The Cure and Underworld all the way back to Kraftwerk.

Frontwoman Emily Haines explains that it was about finding “the romance of another time without falling into nostalgia.” But despite a few glances in the rear-view mirror, ‘Pagans In Vegas’ stitches together its acoustic and synthetic foundations with a crisp, unique sense of the here and now.

METRIC ‘ PAGANS IN VEGAS’ TOUR 2015:

OCTOBER

Wed 7th BRISTOL, O2 Academy

Thur 8th BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham Institute

Fri 9th MANCHESTER, Ritz

Sun 11th GLASGOW, O2 ABC

Mon 12th OXFORD, O2 Academy

Wed 14th LONDON, Forum

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