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World Cafe's Best Of 2017 Playlist

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December 18, 2017 • Enjoy listening to this mix of our favorite sounds of the year, picked by the show's entire staff.

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Emily Haines On World Cafe

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December 14, 2017 • Metric's lead singer drops the wailing guitars and radical synths for a solo performance behind the piano.

Emily Haines On World Cafe

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Review: Emily Haines, 'Choir Of The Mind'

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Review: Emily Haines, 'Choir Of The Mind'

September 7, 2017 • The Metric singer returns with her first solo album in a decade — and another set of reflections too raw for the band that made her famous.

New Mix: Emily Haines, Mt. Wolf, Chastity Belt, Gordi And More

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All Songs Considered

New Mix: Emily Haines, Mt. Wolf, Chastity Belt, Gordi And More

June 13, 2017 • This week's essential new music includes the frenetic pop of Guerilla Toss, a long-awaited solo return from Metric singer Emily Haines, bruising hardcore rock from Thoughts Of Ionesco and more.

New Mix: Emily Haines, Mt. Wolf, Chastity Belt, Gordi And More

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For The First Time In A Decade, Metric's Emily Haines Goes Solo

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For The First Time In A Decade, Metric's Emily Haines Goes Solo

June 9, 2017 • In 2006, the singer took a break from the dance-pop group Metric to record solemnly gorgeous solo music. In September, she and her band The Soft Skeleton will return with Choir Of The Mind.

It's Time To Party: Summer Songs

Party Of One: Misery Alienates Company

July 7, 2009 • Tonight and every night, hordes of keg-tapping sex-havers are congregating. Tonight and every night, you were not invited. What you and your poor, pockmarked soul need is a soundtrack — five songs to ensure that you and your stuffed animals will have a night to remember.

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All Songs Considered

PJ Harvey, Metric, John Vanderslice, More

April 13, 2009 • On this edition of All Songs Considered, John Vanderslice,PJ Harvey and John Parish, Metric, Emily Haines, Camera Obscura, Eulogies, and the Manchester, England-based band Doves.

PJ Harvey, Metric, John Vanderslice, More

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Road Trip: Songs to Drive By

Weeping At The Wheel: Crushingly Sad Songs

August 13, 2008 • Not every road trip is a symbol of celebration and freedom; sometimes you're just wallowing in grief, or perhaps fleeing the soul-shrapnelizing ruin you've created back home. Regardless of your misery's root cause, there's no better place to mourn ostentatiously than alone in a car late at night, when no one's around to witness your pitiful, spluttering sobs.

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Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Soft and Warm

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January 31, 2007 • Singer/keyboardist Emily Haines has made a name for herself as leader of Canada's dancey new-wave outfit Metric. But her solo work, by contrast, reflects a different approach that recalls the warmth and intimacy of a '70s singer/songwriter record blended with jazzy, experimental pop.

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Soft and Warm

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Live in Concert

Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton in Concert

January 10, 2007 • Emily Haines makes ethereal, piano-driven songs that are dark and gloomy, but utterly infectious. Haines visits Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club with her backing band The Soft Skeleton for a night of music originally webcast live on NPR.org Jan. 10.

Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton in Concert

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Best CDs of 2006

Songs of the Year: Top 10 CDs of 2006

December 25, 2006 • Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson listened to thousands of albums in 2006 before settling on these 10 frequently overlooked favorites.

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Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Quietly Beautiful

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November 27, 2006 • Haines recruited darlings of the Canadian indie-rock world to help with her first proper solo album. The Metric leader's Knives Don't Have Your Back recalls the warmth and intimacy of a '70s singer/songwriter's record blended with jazzy, experimental pop.

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Quietly Beautiful

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Song Of The Day

'Our Hell': Making Misery Beautiful

November 24, 2006 • On her first solo album, Knives Don't Have Your Back, Emily Haines writes stripped-down folk songs that sound as catchy as they are doomstruck. The Metric singer purges personal and political demons through dark, minor-key melodies and glorious arrangements.

'Our Hell' by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

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