PRE-ORDER: Loraine James “Detached From The Rest Of You” LP

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around MAY 15th 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order. Thanks!

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.
Loraines 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.

street date 5/15/2026