Canadian indie outfit Metric [ tickets ] will spend a couple weeks this spring on the US tour trail, drumming up support for their latest studio effort, "Fantasies."

The rock quartet will climb aboard the tour bus for a March 17 show in Tempe, AZ, followed by a handful of West Coast club shows. The US jaunt concludes with a Jan. 27 gig in San Diego. The full schedule is shown at right.

"Fantasies," the group's fourth studio album, surfaced last April. The self-released set, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers charts and peaked at No. 76 on The Billboard 200, is Metric's first full-length collection of new material since 2005's "Live It Out." Metric recorded the album at Bear Creek Studios near Seattle with the help of producers Gavin Brown and Jimmy Shaw.

"The four of us went into the woods as a band and with no expectations and did whatever we wanted," vocalist Emily Haines stated at the band's website. "We were coming from London so it was a serious contrast--it felt like we had left civilization and all that mattered was music again."

"Fantasies" is currently streaming in its entirety on Metric's website; a free download of the lead single, "Help I'm Alive," and an acoustic version of "Gold Guns Girls" are also available.