“For obvious reasons, the preferred aesthetic of Toronto/New York/Los Angeles-based band Metric–an angular brand of Arts and Crafts indie rock that always seems stadium ready–and the constructed musical persona of lead singer/songwriter Emily Haines are practically one in the same. As a lead singer, Haines has always embodied the guise of an overconfident (read: insecure) femme fatale: insouciant, cold, occasionally blunt, edges sharpened to a point, but undeniably beautiful. She’s played this role on film (in Julian Plenti’s “Games for Days” video) and inspired characters in print (Bryan Lee O’Malley admitted the inspiration for rocker Envy Adams in his Scott Pilgrim series was Haines), and when Metric is firing on all cylinders– like they did on their unusually strong 2009 release Fantasies– it’s Haines who’s leaving the bite marks.” Metric Synthetica album review – Prefix Magazine.