Metric, "The Shade"

I’m excited for my first new Metric album experience as an actual fan of the band.  The first single is….uh, well, it’s not great.  Put it this way, “Breathing Underwater” was kind of techno but it was so good it almost single-handedly convinced me to get Synthetica.  If my whole Metric fandom had never happened and I’d heard “The Shade,” I would’ve probably just given it one listen, shrugged and gone on assuming Metric wasn’t anything special.

Wait, did I just throw shade at “The Shade?”  A little on the nose there, Mark.