Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
Album artwork for Formentera by Metric

The vinyl artwork for Metric’s new album, Formentera, includes a motto that sums up the past few years: This Is What Happened. It’s an understatement that manages to say everything. Even real places become imaginary when they are so far out of reach. Named for an idyllic island near Ibiza off the coast of Spain, Formentera is a place that, for Metric, only existed on a page in a “dream destinations” travel book that lay open on a desk in the new recording studio that guitarist Jimmy Shaw built in 2020, in a rural hamlet north of Toronto. This is the setting where the band’s eighth album took shape. Metric’s sound is both genre-defying and genre-defining. Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw, bassist Joshua Winstead and drummer Joules Scott Key started playing together in NYC in 2001. They are just getting started.

Metric

Formentera

Metric Music International
Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
LP

$26.99

Black
Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

793888099678

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Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
CD +

$8.99

Indie Exclusive

Released 07/08/2022Catalog Number

793888102576

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Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
CD

$13.99

Released 07/08/2022Catalog Number

793888099876

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Metric

Formentera

Metric Music International
Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
LP

$26.99

Black
Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

793888099678

Learn more
Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
CD +

$8.99

Indie Exclusive

Released 07/08/2022Catalog Number

793888102576

Learn more
Album artwork for Formentera by Metric
CD

$13.99

Released 07/08/2022Catalog Number

793888099876

Learn more

The vinyl artwork for Metric’s new album, Formentera, includes a motto that sums up the past few years: This Is What Happened. It’s an understatement that manages to say everything. Even real places become imaginary when they are so far out of reach. Named for an idyllic island near Ibiza off the coast of Spain, Formentera is a place that, for Metric, only existed on a page in a “dream destinations” travel book that lay open on a desk in the new recording studio that guitarist Jimmy Shaw built in 2020, in a rural hamlet north of Toronto. This is the setting where the band’s eighth album took shape. Metric’s sound is both genre-defying and genre-defining. Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw, bassist Joshua Winstead and drummer Joules Scott Key started playing together in NYC in 2001. They are just getting started.