- Metasplice come from Philadelphia, but it's hard to talk about their music without a plethora of spacey adjectives. Their ability to leap between intense claustrophobia and zero-gravity depths makes for a deeply alienated listening experience, best exemplified on last year's Infratracts LP on Morphine. While their latest effort for Morphosis' label doesn't necessarily expand their sonic palette, Metasplice own a distinct niche that remains as captivating as it is confrontational.
According to the sleeve, "Vertia" was recorded in December 2012; its sand-paper-dry drum production certainly sets it apiece with their Topographical Interference EP of the same year. A dissonantly pitched synth sets an expansive sheet atop the developing drum patterns, which themselves are eventually lifted off into a void of echo. "Tiled Eighths" sounds something like a collapsing nebula. Endless reverb tails strafe around a modular sequence before the gain is cranked up to levels that make you question how much sound a piece of music can hold. It's the sort of track that will either set you running or stop you in your tracks.
TracklistA1 Vertia
B1 Tiled Eighths