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• Here, Metric frontwoman Emily Haines expresses solidarity with whomever it is you would want to have beside you in the event of world cataclysm. "It is a love song that goes beyond conventional depictions of romantic love," she told UK newspaper The Sun. "It's an end-of-days banger expressing solidarity with whoever it is you would want to have beside you in the event of catastrophe. It might be your best friend, your sister, or your dog."
• Haines, guitarist and co-producer James Shaw, and co-producer Liam O'Neil penned "All Comes Crashing" near the end of the writing process for Formentera. They'd come up with a ton of music during the pandemic but felt there was something missing. Haines sat Shaw and co-producer Gus Van Go down and played them three songs that she had just recorded on the piano. "All Comes Crashing" was the last one she played for them.
  
  "Gus and I both looked at each other and we're like, 'You're kidding, right?'" Shaw recalled to Apple Music. "Of all the music that we'd written over two years, this was the most straightforward, completely relatable song!"
• Metric released "All Comes Crashing" as the lead single from Formentera. The band named the album for a Spanish island near Ibiza, a place they said existed in a "dream destinations" travel book that was on the desk of their recording studio.
  
  "We had been living in our imaginations for a long time, because we couldn't physically go anywhere else," Shaw said. "When you listen to the album from beginning to end, you start with this immediate feeling of tension building, of being stuck in a loop, and then there's this intense release that happens. You're swept off your feet into the title track 'Formentera' and it's like you escaped."