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Grow Up And Blow Away
words by Mandy Drake
Until now, if you wanted to get your mitts on Metric’s debut album, you’d have to have paid through the nose for an imported copy. Those who have done just that are probably wishing they’d waited, while those who pick up a copy in the UK any time soon will no doubt wish they too had waited, this time for the January Sales. While ‘Live It Out’ gave us Metric with a crunching pop-punk backbone, ‘Grow Up’ is a teething Toronto quartet playing two of their best songs (‘Hardwire’ and the record’s title track) and little else of interest.
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