Metric

From: Toronto, Canada

Active: 1998–present

I first heard them: on Pandora, which kept coming up with “Combat Baby”

Sound: indie rock with some gorgeous musical ideas but a tendency toward shapelessness

Further listening: Here’s a song from Fantasies and one from Synthetica.  (After the latter album I stopped following them⁠—I should probably get caught up sometime.)

“Sick Muse” (2009)
“Youth Without Youth” (2012)