Metric Get To Work On New Album

Metric have started work on the follow up to 2005’s ‘Live It Out’ Emily Haines has revealed.

The Canadians are currently working on tracks at a studio in Toronto which she bought with guitarist James Shaw and DFA 1979’s Sebastian Grainger.

She told the NME: "We just got this amazing space and the first recording and writing sessions for Metric are in there right now."

"We've written about 15 songs. We're starting to hone in and choose some of our favourites."

She added: "It'll be a summer album, regardless of when it's released. It definitely will have a summer atmosphere."

The album is slated for release sometime next year but before then the band will debut the new material with a series of intimate gigs.

"We're doing a few shows in that'll be strictly new material," Haines said. "We'll play eight new songs and then an encore."