Metric, False Dichotomy (live), The Fillmore, San Francisco, October 7, 2022 (4K)

Metric play their song "False Dichotomy" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California on October 7, 2022. False Dichotomy appeared on the band's eighth studio album, Formentera (2022). Metric is a Juno Award winning Canadian indie rock band consisting of Emily Haines (lead vocals / keyboards), James Shaw (guitar), Josh Winstead (bass), and Joules Scott-Key (drums). To buy Metric's music and merch, visit https://ilovemetricstore.com.

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False Dichotomy lyrics:

Told we could be who we wanted
Or get what we needed, hey yeah
One and the other competing
Over the meaning, hey yeah

Back when I said that I want it all
This wasn't the point at all
Hostile to that superficial view
Show me something that can't be bought
It's harder to do than I thought
False dichotomy, no choice to choose
When you don't know if you should fall
If there'd be a net at all
Pleasure gets so easily abused
Show me something that can't be bought
It's harder to do than I thought
False dichotomy, no choice to choose

Hate, Love
Hate, Love

And when you don't want to chase it
But can't stand to waste it, hey yeah
It's either rags into riches
Or life in the trenches, hey yeah

Back when I said that I want it all
This wasn't the point at all
Hostile to that superficial view
Show me something that can't be bought
It's harder to do than I thought
False dichotomy, no choice to choose
When you don't know if you should fall
If there'd be a net at all
Pleasure gets so easily abused
Show me something that can't be bought
It's harder to do than I thought
False dichotomy, no choice to choose

Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love
Hate, Love

Written by Emily Haines / James Shaw / Liam O’Neil

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Doomscroller North American Tour live dates (2022):

August 19 — Regina, SK @ Conexus Arts Centre
August 20 — Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place
August 21 — Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
August 25 — London, ON @ London Music Hall
August 26 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
August 27 — Ottawa, Canada @ National Arts Centre
August 29 — Montreal, QC @ Mtelus
August 30 — Quebec City, QC @ Théâtre Capitole
Sept. 1-2 — Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
Sept. 24 — Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
Sept. 25 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sept. 26 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Sept. 28 — Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
Sept. 29 — Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
Sept. 30 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
Oct. 2 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Oct. 3 — San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Oct. 5 — Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
Oct. 6 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Oct. 7-8 — San Francisco, CA @The Fillmore
Oct. 10 — Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
Oct. 11 — Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Oct. 12 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
Oct. 14 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Oct. 15 — Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
Oct. 17 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
Oct. 18 — Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
Oct. 19 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
Oct. 21 — Richmond, VA @ The National
Oct. 22 — Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
Oct. 23 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
Oct. 25 — Boston, MA @ House Of Blues
Oct. 26-27 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

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Metric official bio:

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.