“Come To Me” has been floating around for a couple months now, having appeared on YouTube back in July, but now the Metome number has a proper home on Noumenal Loom’s latest compilation album. Wherever you listen to it, “Come To Me” is one of Metome’s better experiments with space, a series of quick bursts…
Space has always played a central — if not obvious — role in the music Osaka’s Metome builds up. Even at his most frantic on Objet, it was the moments of air between the pitch-shifted samples and bass slaps that made everything connect all the harder. In recent months, Metome has been exploring that space…
Osaka’s Metome has mostly drawn attention for his more woozy moments — as highlighted on the still-excellent Objet, he’s a pro at getting disparate elements together and letting them bounce off one another just right. Yet he’s long shown a side willing to stray from the tight bass slaps and half-second vocal burps, and latest…
In which an artist who often felt like he was bouncing off of rubber walls makes a song that feels like quicksand. Osaka’s Metome spent the first half of 2015 exploring helium-pumped sounds, but in recent times has moved in a darker, more dense direction. “Triple X” isn’t far removed from something like “Feather,” as…
Metome’s music can sometimes just feel like an experiment in texture, like the Osaka producer is more interested in how a song feels than how it sounds. Usually, he manages to piece together something great out of that approach, as is the case on the squished-together “Lucy//Itch Stopping.” It’s an extremely spacious song that fizzles…