In a strange twist of timing, before this all happened, we were planning on releasing the Dirt Road version of “Empty”, and I’m thrilled to report it is finally coming out! The original version of the song appeared on our album Live it Out from 2005, but the lyrics sound oddly timely to me right now, hopefully in a way that brings comfort and makes you feel good as opposed to defeated and/or depressed? Fingers crossed it gives you a boost. Maybe a solitary living room acoustic dance party? Shake your head, it’s empty!
So yeah when we were setting up the release of the single a few months ago, we asked you to submit your “Empty” inspired artwork. After receiving hundreds of excellent entries, it quickly became clear it would be impossible to choose just one final piece to feature, so we ended up going with three images for the single, (two for the 7″ vinyl + one for the digital), and putting together a selection of other limited edition items featuring some of these brilliant, poignant submissions. The whole “Empty” collection is available now and we are donating a portion of the proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders, an essential organization we are proud to support. You can learn more about them here. And you can see all we got at ilovemetricstore.com
Not sure what comes next. I’ll leave you with this message I sent to a friend at the height of the lockdown here-
Been gardening, slowly working on building a studio, sewing… I hang out with trees and, like, 5 people total. Who am I? lol. But the fact is there are so many trappings from my old life I am relieved to be free of, spiritually and financially draining behaviours of consumption I thought were required but are no longer expected of me, if they ever even were.