“Gold, Guns, Girls” by Metric

"Gold, Guns, Girls" comes off Fantasies, the Canadian band Metric's 2009 album, and it began as a rough sketch from bandmate Jimmy that Emily Haines played over and over with Scarface running on the screen. What she wrote is a song about greed in every flavor, the hunger that never gets fed however much piles up. The band plays it like a getaway: guitars firing in tight, clipped bursts, Haines spitting lines fast and cool over the top, the chorus flung wide open.

Gavin Brown produced and John O'Mahony mixed, keeping it sleek and loud. It went to radio as the album's fourth single late in 2009, critics were kind (AllMusic called it "laser beam-tight"), and an acoustic take later showed up on the Plug In Plug Out EP.

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