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I’ve been anticipating this for months and the day has finally come. ‘Knives don’t have your back’ is Emily Haines‘ 1st solo album! For those who are unfamiliar, Emily Haines is the lead singer of Metric and a part-time member of Broken Social Scene.

Haines’ decision to release a solo album was long in the making. She says, “When I was a little kid…I would creep downstairs to the piano and write rudimentary songs about imaginary places. I’m told the first song I ever wrote was a love song to a cranberry tree. I always used the mute pedal. I hated the idea of anybody hearing me. Everywhere I’ve lived while working with Metric, I’ve written songs on the piano and played them for no one. On the advice of a friend, I decided I’d better start recording them before they were forgotten. Four meandering years later I ended up with this collection of songs featuring a few of my favorite people, a group I call The Soft Skeleton.”

A love song to a Cranberry Tree? How can you NOT love her?!

Anyway, this album is beautiful, delicate, haunting. I fell in love as soon as I pressed play on the first song and with each track my obsession became increasingly stronger as I fell deeper and deeper into the mesmerizing abyss of Emily’s daydreamer lyrics. The songs are great, seriously. You can check out her first single, Doctor Blind on her myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/emilyhaines