Metric have shared their second single, “Time Is A Bomb,” from their new album, ‘Romanticize The Dive’, arriving April 24 on Thirty Tigers. The song is a hard driving ode to seizing the moment with a dangerous adrenaline junkie edge: “Time is a bomb that’s ticking faster / I love to flirt with disaster.” Fans can pre-order the album HERE.
“Say what you want about the wellness boom, I think it’s a natural response to the unrelenting awareness we have of our mortality,” says Emily Haines. “The feeling of wanting to hold on and make time stop while simultaneously doing everything you can to max out your fleeting vitality – this song expresses that inner tension. I love my life and I’m truly amazed that I made it to my happily ever after, but I don’t want to spend the time I have left being boring, obsessing over consequences and hiding from fun. I don’t expect to be jumping off speaker stacks or crowd surfing like I used to, but it’s still too soon to say never.”
For their tenth LP, Metric went back to the place where they met: New York City at the height of its indie-rock explosion. Recording once again at Electric Lady, Metric reunited with Fantasies and Synthetica producer Gavin Brown, joined by co-producers Jimmy Shaw, Liam O’Neil, and mix engineer John O’Mahoney. This emotional reunion sonically captures the thrill of the band’s earliest ascent, with all the chaos and possibility of the early-2000s music scene, and brings it into the cultural context of 2026.
Romanticize The Dive – Tracklisting:
Victim Of Luck
Wild Rut
Time Is A Bomb
Crush Forever
Tremolo
Moral Compass
As If You’re Here
Loyal
Antigravity
Clouds To Break
Leave You On A High