![]() In support of the album, Haines toured North America in late 2017. The album's lead single, "Fatal Gift", was released on 9 June 2017. On September 15, 2017, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton released the album Choir of the Mind it was recorded a year earlier in Toronto and released by Last Gang Records and eOne ( Entertainment One). In May 2017, Haines was with Broken Social Scene in Manchester, England, the night after the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert she attributes her ability to carry on and play after the attack to the support of former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Haines contributed to Broken Social Scene's 2017 album Hug of Thunder and performed with Broken Social Scene on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 30 March 2017. She became good friends with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson before Reed's death in 2013. Prior to the fourth Metric album Fantasies, Haines traveled to Argentina to write. She often appears with Amy Millan as her opening act. Her solo work is typically more subdued and piano-based than her work with Metric. Knives Don't Have Your Back was followed in 2007 by the EP What Is Free to a Good Home?, which was inspired by the death of her father. Following the release, Haines undertook a tour of North America in January 2007. The songs "Our Hell" and "Doctor Blind" were issued as singles and corresponding music videos were produced. In 2006, as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Haines released the studio album Knives Don't Have Your Back. In 2010, she appeared as part of Broken Social Scene, on the soundtrack for the film This Movie is Broken. "Dead Disco" also featured on Clean Original Soundtrack. The band, appearing as themselves, performed their song "Dead Disco" and had minor speaking roles in a backstage scene. ![]() In 2004, Metric appeared in the 2004 drama film Clean. Haines also contributed vocals or backing vocals to songs by Broken Social Scene, Jason Collett, Stars, Delerium, K-Os, KC Accidental, The Stills, Tiësto, The Crystal Method, Rezz, and Todor Kobakov. Īs of 2023, Metric has released nine studio albums: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (2003), Live It Out (2005), Grow Up and Blow Away (2007, but recorded in 2001), Fantasies (2009), Synthetica (2012), Pagans in Vegas (2015), Art of Doubt (2018), Formentera (2022), and Formentera II (2023). Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key joined the band in 2001. After releasing an EP entitled Mainstream EP, they changed the band's name to "Metric", after a sound programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. Haines met James Shaw in Toronto in 1997 and began performing as a duo called "Mainstream". In 1996, she distributed a limited-edition album entitled Cut in Half and Also Double that included songs written and recorded during her student years. Haines attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver between 19, and Montreal's Concordia University between 19. During their time at ESA, Haines and Millan formed their first band together. She studied drama at the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA), where she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in Broken Social Scene (co-founded by Drew). Haines grew up in a house rich with experimental art and musical expression and her early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and PJ Harvey. Her sister is the Canadian television journalist Avery Haines and her brother is Tim Haines, owner of Bluestreak Records in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her middle name, Savitri, is from Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, an epic poem by Sri Aurobindo. ![]() She is the daughter of Canadian poet Paul Haines her mother founded a school for under-privileged children in India. Early life īorn in New Delhi, and raised in Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Haines is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States (her parents were both born in the US). Haines possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. Emily Savitri Haines (born 25 January 1974) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
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