Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton is tagged as: female vocalists, indie, canadian, singer-songwriter, piano Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton is the solo project of Emily Haines of the Canadian indie pop group Metric. On September 26 2006, Last Gang Records released Knives Don’t Have Your Back, which was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over the previous four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse’s Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene’s Justin Peroff, Stars’ Evan Cranley, and Metric’s Jimmy Shaw. Though it took Haines four years to complete the album, the singer says she’d been plotting this for years. “When I was a little kid,” she said in a statement, “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,” she continued. “On the advice of a friend, I decided I’d better start recording them before they were forgotten.” Among those songs are a track that was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal, while some we... Read More About Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton Biography...  Send Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton ringtones to your cell
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