LORAINE JAMES announces new album “Gentle Confrontation”

Loraine James proudly announces her fourth album, Gentle Confrontation, out September 22nd on Hyperdub. The new album features contributions from Marina Herlop, keiyaA, George Riley, and many others. To celebrate the announcement, Loraine shares the lead single “2003.”

“2003” focuses on the moment of trauma which establishes the soul searching that permeates Gentle Confrontation. Loraine’s wavering vocals directly address the day, 20 years ago, when her father passed away and lays out the album’s themes; the album explores relationships (especially familial), understanding, and giving back a little grace and care. There’s a sense she’s trying to get a view on the life she’s led since, expressing gratitude and unpicking her feelings. The music gently soothes around her as she delivers her unfiltered memories.

Just as raw as the song, the video presents Loraine as she is, seated and spilling her feelings as scenes of her life in London flutter around her. Simultaneously busy and familiar, it offers a glimpse into the fears and comforts of a young artist making sense of the world through the one they know best.

With Gentle Confrontation, Loraine’s third album for Hyperdub, she lets us into a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. She says this is the record a teenage Loraine would like to have made, with musical tendencies that reflect that time, too. It’s a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favorites: math rock and emo-electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine, and Telefon Tel Aviv, which drew her back to her adolescence. Featuring an ever more diverse set of peers, the album places them into Loraine’s unusual musical settings and draws out sensitive and reflexive performances. At other times the album stretches out into a drifting ambience as if trying to find a sense of bliss in the everyday.

You cant watch the premiere of “2003” down below and be sure to Pre-Save “Gentle Confrontation”  Here