help, i'm alive./ emily haines acoustic.

I have been a huge fan of Emily Haines and her work for a long time. F-Y-I, for all you rural folk, Emily Haines is a Canadian artist/singer/songwriter founded out of Toronto. She has done collaborations with several well known bands, most driving from the Arts&Crafts record label. Her resume includes work with Broken Social Scene, Stars, The Stills, she has also done solo work and has collaberated with The Soft Skeleton. But for the most part Metric.

Their most recent album was "Live It Out" released in 2005, and not until a short while ago had they released much more. They've have many extended tours, but really, they haven't done much. Finally, they've came back together and Emily has wrote out a new album, which will be coming out in the spring of 2009.

I recently saw them in concert, and they played a lot of their new stuff. It's amazing. It keeps the very original feel of thier older work, yet it has progressed forward, reaching out to new boundaries. Their music has expanded and grown since "Live it Out" without gambling into the sometimes unforgiving pit of rejection, which I've seen happen to bands which try to get experimental or re-invent themselves.

You might have heard the single from their new album, "Help, I'm Alive"? Its worked its way around the radio, so it shouldn't be too foreign to you. Anyway, Metric has posted an acoustic version of the song on their blog, and I must say, wow. It's phenominal. I highly reccomend listening to it. It's available for full quality download here.