James K – Random Girl

Label: Incienso – INC016
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 2 Dec 2022
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Experimental, Shoegaze, Noise, Dark Ambient

Following releases on Hamburg’s Dial, London’s AD 93, and She Rocks! (a label that featured their debut full-length which had one of the personas, PET, then temporarily sacrificed). James K presents her sophomore album 'Random Girl' LP on NYC-based label Incienso, featuring collaborations with Drew McDowall and Stefan Maier.

What’s gathered at first is a heterogeneous mixture of intimacy and sore, collected between 2014-2018. As if in a cruel playground game, K breaks a tracklist full of complex soundscapes, voice manipulation, and dazzling shoegaze with a self-built noise box, stethoscope throat-voice and a cellphone recording from a fake tropical island on ecstasy.

Consequently, Random Girl is a voice against infantilization of girlhood, a decisive refutal of integrity, fighting what can be understood as the death of expression. Take a sip of water before your memory error blinks. Dial to K. Listen to the disfragmented territory and the cast of it she’s making. It might not be what you will have thought tomorrow.

A1. Alright
A2. Eiv Mude
A3. Bound, To
B1. Pretty Song
B2. Life Of A Fly
B3. Don't Walk On The Dunes
C1. Marketa
C2. Teen Cruelty
D1. Tropical Island
D2. Nude Volvo