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,Formenterais a place that, forMetric, 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’ssound is both genre-defying and genre-defining here.Formenterais the follow-up to 2018’sArt of Doubt.

1. Doomscroller
2. All Comes Crashing
3. What Feels Like Eternity
4. Formentera
5. Enemies of the Ocean
6. I Will Never Settle
7. False Dichotomy
8. Oh Please
9. Paths in the Sky