Loraine James - Detached From The Rest Of You

Please Note This Is A Pre-Order Item Due For Release 22 May 2026

Tracklist:

1. A Long Distance Call
2. The Book of Self Doubt
3. In a Rut (Feat. Sydney Spann)
4. Score (Feat. Anysia Kym)
5. Seems Like I
6. Flatline (Feat. Miho Hatori)
7. Peak Again (Feat. Alan Sparhawk)
8. Habits and Patterns (Feat. Tirzah)
9. Wish I Was Like U
10. Ending Us All (Feat. Le
11. BLACK X Fyn Dobson)
12. Forever Still (Steel)
13. See Through

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.