Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

Label: Hyperdub – HDBLP064
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 22 Sep 2023
Genre: Electronic
Style: Glitch, IDM, Experimental, Deconstructed Club, Ambient

Loraine James's third Hyperdub album ‘Gentle Confrontation’ opens a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. It's a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favourites; math rock and emo-electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine and Telefon Tel Aviv.

The album also features an ever more diverse set of peers, placing them in her unusual musical settings and drawing out sensitive and reflexive performances. At other times the album stretches out into a drifting ambience as if seeking a sense of bliss in the everyday.

‘Gentle Confrontation’ is about relationships (especially familial), understanding, and giving back a little grace and care, while the tone of the record criss-crosses watery ambience with denatured rhythm and asmr beats. These 16 tracks are Loraine's best work yet, and a personal and musical leap forward, delivering a totally unique vision of electronic pop music.

1. Gentle Confrontation
2. 2003
3. Let U Go ft. keiyaA
4. Déjà Vu ft. RiTchie
5. Prelude of Tired of Me
6. Glitch The System (Glitch Bitch 2)
7. I DM U
8. One Way Ticket To The Midwest (Emo) ft. Corey Mastrangelo
9. Cards With The Grandparents
10. While They Were Singing ft. Marina Herlop
11. Try For Me ft. Eden Samara
12. Tired Of Me
13. Speechless ft. George Riley
14. Disjointed (Feeling Like A Kid Again)
15. I'm Trying To Love Myself
16. Saying Goodbye ft. Contour