Delicate spectral-sounding moments and pregnant pauses are suddenly swept along by a torrent of brittle dissonances and angry outbursts … the music’s journey becomes trapped in intense vortexes full of angst-ridden expressionism.
Pwyll ap Siôn, Gramophone
Metcalf’s ‘Photogenia’ looks back to a photographic process pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s: delicate whirrings and tappings fade or grow like Talbot’s ghostly silhouettes on light-sensitive paper. To say it left an impression is not intended as clever wordplay: it did.
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, March 2025
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