Loraine James
Detached From The Rest Of You LP vinyl

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.

Loraine’s 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.

NEW / Released in 2026

Tracklist:

A1 A Long Distance Call

A2 The Book Of Self Doubt

A3 In A Rut

A4 Score

A5 Seems Like I

A6 Flatline

B1 Peak Again

B2 Habits & Patterns

B3 Wish I Was Like U

B4 Ending Us All

B5 Forever Still (Steel)

B6 See Through