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| 1. Our Hell |
| 2. Doctor Blind |
| 3. Crowd Surf Off A Cliff |
| 4. Detective Daughter |
| 5. The Lottery |
| 6. The Maid Needs A Maid |
| 7. Mostly Waving |
| 8. Reading In Bed |
| 9. Nothing & Nowhere |
| 10. The Last Page |
| 11. Winning |
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Four years and four cities later, Metric's Emily Haines is finally (almost) ready to release her debut solo effort. On September 26, Last Gang Records will release Knives Don't Have Your Back, which was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over the last four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse's Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and Metric's Jimmy Shaw. Though it took Haines four years to complete the album, the singer says she'd been plotting this for years. Among those songs are a track that was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal, while some were recorded in Toronto in the winter of 2002, shortly after the death of Haines' father. According to the label, the album is intimate and mellow, featuring piano-driven tracks with string and horn arrangements.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty and sweet,
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This review is from: Knives Dont Have Your Back (Audio CD)
Emily Haines (of Metric) creates a soft touch kind of album. This album would be the soft spoken cousin of Metric, with its light vocals, reminiscing of Cat Powers and Beth Gibbons. My only (small) beef with this CD is that several of the tracks start the same way, with a repetitive piano cord. Otherwise, I find this album very soothing, just what you need when taking a hot bath or drinking a cup of tea.4 stars out of 5!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mistake On Tracklisting,
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This review is from: Knives Dont Have Your Back (Vinyl) (LP Record)
On the back of my "KDHYB" there are only 5 tracks on side A not 6 like the tracklist states. Side A begins with "Our Hell" and ends with "the Lottery" , Side B begins with "the Maid Needs a Maid" and ends with "Winning".Am I the only one with this small but never the less mistake? Though "Knives Dont Have Your Back" has to be one the decades most profound and beautiful records. I am still hoping for a follow-up.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb,
By soulmoxie "A customer" (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Knives Dont Have Your Back (Audio CD)
This is not Metric, this is not Metric, warn the aghast popsters. No, it is not Metric, but it is the pure, stripped-down creative genius upon which Metric is based. So simple and quiet, yet so devastating. I shiver in awe every time I hear "Crowd Surf Off a Cliff" - that voice, that piano part. It is always so interesting to have these proto-documents from artists that have made it in rock or pop: it's like going to wellhead, finding out where it all comes from. (Another example: Martina Sorbara's "The Cure for Bad Deeds": her later reincarnation -- Dragonette). Now if we could only have "Cut in Half and Also Double", which is well-nigh impossible to find. Emily, could you please pull a "Grow Up and Blow Away" and see that "Cut in Half" is reissued? I doubt it can be as good as Knives, but it sure would be lovely to find out.
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