The Toronto group Metric offers Formentera, an eighth album with music as electronic as it is pop, as screaming as it is captivating. This opens with an introduction, Doomscrollerten minutes long, which some may describe as a clever mix of the unleashed and bewildering style specific to the American synthpop duo Boy Harsher and an acoustic marked by the dark sounds of the 1990s. , sails between the tube All Comes Crashingwhich reached a million streams shortly after its release in the spring, and other equally grandiose and catchy tracks, each in their own way, such as Enemies of the Ocean and False Dichotomy. Named after a Mediterranean island near Ibiza, Formentera thus allows an inner escape that makes you feel all that a trip allows, from excitement to contemplation through palpable satisfaction and languor.
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