"Sick Muse" is the third single from Canadian rock group Metric

Metric (band)

Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles...

's fourth studio album Fantasies

Fantasies (album)

- Singles :* "Help, I'm Alive" * "Front Row" * "Gimme Sympathy" * "Sick Muse" * "Gold Guns Girls"...

. The song was released in the UK for radio airplay on May 18, 2009, and in Canada on June 1, 2009.

Song information

The song was written by Emily Haines

Emily Haines

Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer and keyboardist of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she performed with her own name and under the alias Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton...

 and produced by John O'Mahony

John O'Mahony

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. The song was written at Bear Creek Studios outside of Seattle like most of the songs on Fantasies. It also was one of the songs to go through Metric's "campfire test" in which they strip down the song to just a piano and acoustic guitar with vocals.

In the UK

1. Sick Muse (Radio Edit) (3:18)
2. Nobody Home (James Shaw's Pink Floyd Cover) (3:14)

Music video

The music video for Sick Muse was filmed during a photo shoot with Justin Broadbent and Michael Leach. It happened spontaneously; here's what Metric had to say about it: