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Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Emily Haines delivers big refrains and spiky hooks, cooing about love on 'Sick Muse' and going dark on 'Help I'm Alive'..."Spin (p.80) - "Ever the empathizer, Haines calmly untangles her characters' despair, whether it's over the quietly pulsing 'Collect Call' or the driving electro rock of 'Satellite Mind.'"Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "[Metric] amp up the melodies on their fourth album, tapping synthed-out industrial beats to vent their frustrations about the state of modern affairs." -- Grade: B+Alternative Press (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "FANTASIES flows seamlessly from song to engaging song....It's a layering of everything Metric have created in the past with a sense of immediate passion."Billboard (p.37) - "[T]he Canadian quartet continues to polish its spacey, new wave-colored sound that's heavy with buzzing synths and echoed vocals."Q (Magazine) (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's an accomplished act of reconfiguration, brimful of potential singles, chiefly the tub-thumping 'Stadium Love' and 'Gimme Sympathy'..."Blender (Magazine) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] adds brawn, finesse and grandeur to their new-wave drive and Morse-code guitar scrapes..."Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]here is a dreamy quality here that eschews the vague, easy rhymes and lyrical polemics of past Metric records in favor of romance and sex."44.73827
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Uncut (p.70) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Writer/singer Emily Haines is still secretly one of the most articulate, compelling performers in modern rock....[With] a voice that's by turns scathing, despairing and, finally, defiantly hopeful."Magnet (p.102) - "'Poster Of A Girl' sports a slinky French-pop backbeat and matching breathy pouts..."CMJ (No. 930, p.6) - "...[A]n urgent and flexible dance-rock-pop album that fuses all three elements to conjure up the best of '90s alternative rock, with a splash of Brit intellect."44.39207
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The Wire (p.59) - "Halvorson's falsetto voice bleats ludicrously convoluted lyrics that the Byzantine metrics of Shea's drums seem intent on tripping up..."0.6396173
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Down Beat (p.62) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Thanks to their tight arrangements, Cohen's pieces have found a way to be simultaneously delicate and fierce."JazzTimes (p.96) - "'The Ever Evolving Etude' is a clever exercise in metric modulation and complex polyrhythms that gradually evolves into a Latin-flavored, clave-fueled workout..."0.3997608
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