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Title: WARNING: May become highly addictive
Review: Metric's LIVE IT OUT is much better than its predecessor for many reasons - harder, cleaner production value, more mature songwriting - but what I think the biggest improvement is, is the music itself. On OWU, there were lots of great ideas but the songs never got far enough off the ground to really take off. Thankfully LIVE IT OUT fixes this. Every song seems to have a purpose and they all seem to be more than one-dimensional. A prime example would be EMPTY; a soft indie acoustic song ala Sarah Harmer until it literally crumbles away to nothing and then a wall of crunching guitars come in. Very cool.LIO may not be album of the year but it does contain a few contenders for single of the year. I am expecting pitchfork to name POSTER OF A GIRL their top single for 2005. An homage to early new wave and bloody brilliant. Other standout tracks are the title-track LIVE IT OUT, POLICE AND THE PRIVATE, and GLASS CEILING.
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