I <3 Ben Harper's rendition....he's a truly talent musican.

The Fiery Furnaces sound like children's merry go round music. its truely aweful. liquid poo. I feel like they are the perfect example of pitchfork buzz gone bad. It was probably an experiment to see how bad of band they could say was good and get all bandwagon'ers going to their shows.

ahh i just saw them tonight in london. they were great as always and i really enjoyed the new album stuff. i was skeptical after all i've read here but it sounded great! they played alot of old stuff too. i was soooo tripped out by Jason Lowenstein's new look or whatevs, i saw him play just last year and he still looked 90's sebadoh. he looks about 10 years younger now.

Anyway FF was great but the venue they played at, ICA is sort of an arty place, not really a venue and they turned the lights on during the FF's last song and they were like 'are we supposed to stop'? and the lights just stayed on then everyone booed and some ppl working it came out and it was all confusing. The FF's didn't want to leave the stage, but reluctantely, after alot of confusion on everyone's part, they just left. It was the most i've heard them talk tho!

The Donna's version of Drive My Car is also "truly awful liquid poo" Just par for the course for that remarkably sucktastic band.

Ted Leo's version of "I'm Looking Through You" is so fucking money. He is also a "truly talentED musician." I hope he plays that song at Webster Hall.

Good luck with that, Chris. Also try to get him to play "since u been gone." He just looooooves that. :)

I've been to enough of his shows to know better, and I wouldn't request "since u been gone" anyway. I don't see why he wouldn't play this cover though.

I think that Pitchfork were very unfair to Metric. The reviewer particularly lacked credibility by also failing to acknowledge "Old World Underground..." (Metric's first release), as a quality album.

It appears that the reviewer was looking for a style in Metric that just isn't there. The reviewer was hoping Metric would sound more like the song in which Emily Haynes collaborated on the Broken Social Scene album. This type of criticism is like criticizing Badly Drawn Boy for not sounding enough like he does on the first U.N.K.L.E. cd in "Nursery Rhyme".

Metric are a fun indie-rock band and should be recognized for writing catchy, entertaining songs. Unfortunately, receiving a 4.2 from Pitchfork is basically a kiss of death. What a shame!

Hey, Tiny Mix Tapes gave 'Rehearsing My Choir' a 5/5. Who says Pitchfork's always right? They panned 'No Flashlight', too.

That Guardian review of "Rehearsing My Choir" was pretty positive, I'd say. It admits that listening to it properly takes some dedication, but that the dedication pays off.

Re: the Splended Magazine review of Live It Out, I thought it was Feist who did the vocals on "Almost Crimes." Having seen Metric in concert, I can confirm that the girl jumping up and down in the video does not look like Haines...

Personally, I think Live It Out is kinda a disappointment. The previous record was actually catchy; Live It Out has a few good songs but also a lot of sonic masturbation.

Thanks for the link to my mash!

we all knew metrics new cd was gonna suck, feist obviously does the vocals for almost crimes, feist is amazing, emily haines has lost her touch, there new songs are not entertaining, they are garbage compared to the last album! thank you very much

Pitchfork needs to have an editor to consolidate their views somehow. Just look at the StereoLab reviews - they're all over the map. I believe they play politics just like everyone else. Lansing Drieden's Incomplete Triangle was panned because the guy didn't like the way they conducted themselves. The music itself is not examined for what it's worth . When critics start to say,"I think "insert band here" sucks because of their arrogant conduct" without addressing the recordings strictly on their own, then the system's busted. I'm sure plenty of people who think Scientology is a crock still like Beck. When did become practice that we have to like musicians as people before we'll listen to them?