What do you get when you mix a voice that is both sweet yet edgy, tough yet vulnerable and always sexy?

Emily Haines has one of the best female voices that I've heard in this crazy music world. In one song, she is able to come off as a beautifully brazen woman with a heart of nails ("Are we all brides to be / Are we all designed to be confined / Buy ourselves chastity belts and lock them") and in another, a vulnerable and small girl filled with questions. Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw said of Live It Out that it is "a record full of questions and struggles as opposed to the answers and observations of Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?", the band's 2003 debut.

Whether it's Haines' soft French whispers on "Poster of a Girl" or the exploding vocals of the six minute intro song, "Empty", it is clear that Live It Out will be topping the list of best albums to come out of 2005.

Combining electronics, traditional rock instruments and an arsenal of heartfelt songs, the Canadian indie rockers pull off a sound unique to what's being played on the radio and give the listeners a powerful fuse of synths, pop, and punk guitars. Not to mention that artfully perfect voice of Haines.

Live It Out hits the streets on Sept. 27th, 2005 in Canada, and Oct. 4th in the U.S.

Complete track listing:
Empty
Glass Ceiling
Handshakes
Too Little Too Late
Poster of a Girl
Monster Hospital
Patriarch on a Vespa
Police and the Private
Ending Start
Live It Out

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