The Making of a Medley
Haydain Neale, 1970–2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
It sounds like a hit, and now it looks like one, too: "Gimme Sympathy," one of the better tracks off of Metric's to-be-released Fantasies (you can still listen to the whole album streaming on the band's website), now has a great video to go with a song that may well be the one that finally pushes the band past the tipping point and into the mainstream—a track whose pre-chorus hook is, appropriately, "we're so close to something better left unknown."
Directed by Frank Borin, whose credentials include this well-known ditty about alienation, "Gimme Sympathy"'s video features clever role switches, awesome lighting, kids, and Emily Haines trying to look comfortable being anything but the star of the show. Most impressively, though, the video is all one continuous shot—sort of like Children of Men if it took place in the Sound Academy instead of dystopian England.
Hat tip to Stereogum.
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Yes, but Children of Men cheated, using computer effects to stitch together its jaw-dropping long takes from several shorter, albeit still elaborate, shots. (It's hard to say for sure about the Metric video, given the resolution of YouTube, but the only likely break is about ten seconds before the end.)
Good to know the Sound Academy is good for something. As far as I can tell, it's the worst new venue in the city. No subway access, no proper bar area for non-19+ shows, and no attempt at acoustics - it's just a big fucking square. Cronenberg should just buy up this space too and rent it out as an indoor filmspace REDUX.
Metric, yawn.
Dull song, and the old video cliché of kids swarming around at the end.
Seriously, what the fuck is with the drummer's hair? Not ironic, not so-anti-hip-it's-hip, but plain woke-up-in-the-gutter. Yuck.
I hope I look like her when I'm 35.