Christopher H James, Journalist

“God bless Jamaica,” he announces after a few thoughtful seconds. “Land of riches. Land of the fathers. Land of Jamaica. Land of reggae. Land of raggamuffin. Land of ragga touchin’. But [now with a serious tone of voice] I say, ‘Behold, this is Jamaica. Jamaica dub it’.”

"Eventually I wised up and realised. I went through many years of not playing music and getting my act back together, as they say."

Drowning Horse has reversed the trend of sacrificing brute power for subtlety, with a pugnacious bastard of a debut.

"Someone said that we’re the most self-indulgent band he’d ever seen. That actually cut quite deep because it’s exactly the opposite of what trying to achieve.”

“We have the same amount of money now as when we started: none.”

The last thing you want to do is ask what he thinks of the “drill‘n’bass” tag journalists and musos applied to him in his career’s formative days. “It’s just more static, window dressing, polishing, waffling, missing the point,” he dismisses. “Fundamentally, why the fuck would anyone concern themselves with that boring shit if they were able to thrive and enjoy making music themselves? But why??

Metric clearly quest for perfectly-formed sonic architecture, which from the brooding Artificial Nocturne to Breathing Underwater they more or less nail.