By David Topping

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.