"Don't let anyone tell you to give up on your dreams," Metric singer Emily Haines told a packed house during her band's recent headlining gig at a renovated factory in downtown Philadelphia. "We haven't given up on ours." That persistence is finally paying off for the Canadian rockers -- when it comes to measuring the popularity of Metric, these days not even a yardstick will do. Thanks to the runaway success of their current hit single, "Help, I'm Alive," Haines and her bandmates have sold more copies of this year's Fantasies album in the last few months than their debut release, 2001's Grow Up and Blow Away, moved in nearly eight years.

It's not exactly an impressive timeline for success, but Metric have never been accused of being an impatient band. Haines -- a striking redhead who also moonlights alongside Metric guitarist James Shaw in the Canadian indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene -- wrote the bulk of Fantasies during a solo retreat to Buenos Aires, Argentina. "We had a bunch of songs that we had written previously that we thought might be the record [but frankly] they didn't feel like they had the timeless quality we were looking for," she tells the North County Times. The mesmerizing "Help, I'm Alive" -- which mixes reverb-drenched melodies and airy vocals over taut electronic beats -- is accompanied by an equally hypnotic video. "That kind of reminded me of a kid's TV program on acid or something," Haines tells Decider of the "Help" clip, which was directed by experimental filmmaker Deco Dawson. "[It's] like Yo Gabba Gabba! on acid."

Metric -- Haines, Shaw, bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key -- recently wrapped up a North American club tour in support of Fantasies, and now have a handful of summer gigs scheduled in Canada and Europe. Click here to check out their complete itinerary. (Joe Robinson)

Watch the "Help, I'm Alive" video here: