New Metome: Turquoise

ByPatrick St. Michel

If Dialect is one final glance back at a past quickly dissolving away, Turquoise is the first step forward into the unknown. Metome’s first release following that stunner opens with pure unnerving voices looping on “Teeth,” but that’s just scene setting for “Turquoise” itself. Metome moves closer to straight-up ambient music with this one, with only slight percussion breaking through the synthesizer pulsing shrouding the whole song. It’s about loud vs. quite, peace turned tense by sudden rises in noise, and no clear end destination. Excited to see where it goes. Get it here, or listen below.

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