Album
Romanticize The Dive
2026 · Rock
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
Romanticize The Dive is an Alt/Indie album by Metric, originally released in 2026. On Gatefold: 7 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
🗣️ <i>The sound of a band coming to terms with their 25-year legacy but refusing to be defined by it.</i> Metric’s 10th album arrives 25 years after the Toronto indie icons recorded their first, and the passage of time is certainly not lost on lead singer Emily Haines. “I was a starving artist, but I was fearless,” she reminisces amid the neon glow of the opening <b>“Victim of Luck”</b> before adding, “Now I don’t know what we are.” <i>Romanticize the Dive</i> is the sound of a band coming to terms with the fact that they’re now old enough to be a cog in the 2000s-nostalgia industrial complex, but refusing to be defined by their past. A quarter century into their career, Metric is still coming up with novel ways to reformulate their sound, to the point where typical descriptors like “synth-pop” or “dance rock” feel ill-suited to encompass the Lana Del Rey-goes-Madchester fever dream of <b>“Tremolo”</b> or the operatic post-punk pageantry of <b>“Antigravity.”</b> But for Metric, the evolution is as much philosophical as musical: While the strobe-lit New Orderisms of <b>“Crush Forever”</b> and the LCD-like stutter-funk of <b>“Loyal”</b> hit all the right indie-sleaze pleasure points, the songs are ultimately open-hearted celebrations of long-term romance from a band that’s happy to put their all-night-party days behind them.
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Victim Of Luck3:23
- A2Wild Rut3:11
- A3Time Is A Bomb4:25
- A4Crush Forever4:32
- A5Tremolo3:43
- A6Moral Compass4:28
Side B
- B1As If You’re Here3:36
- B2Loyal3:58
- B3Antigravity3:40
- B4Clouds To Break4:39
- B5Leave You On A High3:35
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- angular
- restless
- nocturnal
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Indie exclusive edition on metallic silver vinyl.
Issued with a metallic silver inner sleeve and a double-sided photo and lyrics insert.
Runouts are etched apart from "STERLING," which is stamped.
Durations do not appear on release and were taken from timing.
Some retailers offered a signed print included with this release:
Rough Trade Exclusive variant limited to 300 copies, included silver metallic paper photo card signed by the band.
The retailer Stranger Than Paradise Records in London offered a "spray painted canvas edition", signed by Emily & Jimmy.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- MetricWRITTEN-BY , PERFORMER WRITTEN-BY, PERFORMER
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 7 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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