Metric "Formentera" 2025-09-12 Williams employed a live-on-the-floor production

Williams employed a live-on-the-floor production ethic that not only had the musicians playing together-a relative rarity on major label rock recordings-but playing without the isolation/separation that producers use to keep the sound of each instrument from bleeding into the other musicians' microphones

sacred harp singing

issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records

the paper inner sleeve bore a psychedelic design

Metric "Formentera" 2025-09-12 Williams employed a live-on-the-floor productionThe vinyl artwork for Metrics new album, Formentera, includes a motto that sums up the past few years: This Is What Happened. Its 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