Emily Haines was there. In 1998, she moved from Toronto to Williamsburg and lived in a loft with members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV on the Radio after her fledgling band settled on the name Metric . Over the next 25 years, the synth-heavy quartet grew into an institution of Canadian rock by steadily tweaking its sleek dance-rock sound. Their early albums showcased a snappy post-punk confidence. Then, Metric’s peak came on 2009’s Fantasies , which paired needling electronics with thumping drum programming; both it and its follow-up, Synthetica , hit the top 10 on the Canadian albums chart and went platinum in Canada. Following those highs came a string of solid but unexciting records, which mostly stuck with Metric’s formula while adding the occasional left-field lyric about the Kool-Aid-drinking masses or confounding reference to QAnon . Romanticize the Dive , Metric’s tenth album, looks backwards in an attempt to recapture those old glories.…