B-Side Guys

Cole De La Isla understands that healing doesn’t arrive on schedule. Their work as Omo Cloud excavates the messy middle spaces where recovery stalls, backslides, and occasionally lurches forward without warning. “Sometimes” emerges from this understanding, documenting those suspended moments when progress feels both inevitable and impossible.

The track’s trip-hop foundation provides crucial stability beneath De La Isla’s more experimental impulses. Programmed beats anchor the composition while allowing substantial room for atmospheric drift—guitar textures that seem to breathe, synthesizer patches that suggest rather than declare. This production approach mirrors the psychological state the song explores: enough structure to prevent complete dissolution, enough space for uncertainty to exist honestly.

De La Isla’s vocal delivery carries the weight of someone learning to trust their own voice again after extended silence. The performance avoids both forced vulnerability and defensive distance, instead finding that rare middle ground where emotion feels genuinely present without being performed. Their phrasing suggests thoughts forming in real time rather than conclusions already reached, capturing the tentative quality of someone testing whether it’s safe to hope again.

The interplay between indie rock instrumentation and trip-hop’s electronic elements creates textural complexity that serves the song’s thematic concerns. Traditional guitar work gets processed through digital filters, while synthetic sounds acquire organic warmth through careful mixing. This sonic hybridization reflects De La Isla’s broader project of rebuilding identity from both familiar and foreign materials.

What makes “Sometimes” particularly effective is its refusal to provide false comfort or premature resolution. The track maintains emotional honesty about the non-linear nature of healing, acknowledging that growth often feels more like wandering than traveling toward a clear destination. De La Isla has created something that functions as both personal documentation and communal recognition—music for anyone learning to live with questions that don’t yet have answers.