Loraine James – Detached From The Rest Of You

Description

Forged from the fire of internal struggles, Loraine James was wrestling with confidence and a desire for change when she embarked on Detached From The Rest Of You. A guiding hand came through producing 2025’s Clandestine EP with singer Anysia Kym, which gave her the experience of a more ‘pop’ setting and the tools and insight to work her instrumentals into more conventional shapes; a shift from club driven sounds and winding instrumentals into more precise song forms.

Loraines production is stripped to the bone, soundscapes of clicks and glitches inspired by Aoki Takamasa, Ryoji Ikeda, and the early-00s Clicks & Cuts school. Here, often with not much more than sparse keyboard chords to fill in with subtle colouring, she uses the space around the sounds and vocals to draw the listener in to a succinct and direct album, her most confident yet.

Guest contributors include vocalist Sydney Spann on In a Rut, Alan Sparkhawk (Low) on downcast anthem Peak Again, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto) on Flatline, Anysia Kim on Score, and Tirzah on Habits and Patterns. Finally her old spar, the rapper Le3 bLACK returns to spit fire with the jazz-indebted track Ending Us All with Fyn Dobson backing on tumbling drums.

Tracklist

A1. A Long Distance Call
A2. The Book of Self Doubt
A3. In a Rut ft Sydney Spann
A4. Score ft Anysia Kym
A5. Seems Like I A6. Flatline ft Miho Hatori
B1. Peak Again ft Alan Sparhawk
B2. Habits and Patterns ft Tirzah
B3. Wish I Was Like U
B4. Ending Us All ft Le3 bLACK x Fyn Dobson
B5. Forever Still (Steel)
B6. See Through