Whatever The Weather Whatever The Weather SKU: GI392LP Barcode: 0804297839219 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Ghostly Released Date: 8th April 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Loraine James kept busy in 2020, processing the year’s turbulence through her art. The North London producer started a monthly show on NTS radio, shared several projects on Bandcamp, and recorded two Hyperdub releases, the Nothing EP and Reflection, the proper LP follow-up to her 2019 breakthrough, For You and I (which landed James, then a teaching assistant by day, the top spot on year-end lists by Quietus and DJ Mag). She also returned to a distinct creative terrain uncharted since her teenage years. In contrast to her club music sensibilities, this mode embraces keyboard improvisations and vocal experimentation, foregoing percussive structure in favor of shaping atmosphere and tone. From this divergent headspace emerged new coordinates and climates, a new out- let: Whatever The Weather. A longtime fan of ambient-adjacent Ghostly International artists such as Telefon Tel Aviv (who she’d ask to master the album), HTRK (whose singer Jonnine Standish features on Nothing), and Lusine (whom she remixed at the start of 2021), James saw the label as the ideal home for this eponymous album of airy, transportive tracks as they began to formulate. The titling on Whatever The Weather works in degrees; simple param- eters allowing James to focus on the nuances as a mood-builder. Her suspended universe fluctuates; freezing, thawing, swaying and blooming from track to track. James describes her jam-based approach for the sessions as “free-flowing, stopping when I felt like I was done,” allowing her subconscious to lead. The improvisations have an intrinsic fluidity to them, akin to sudden weather events passing over a single environment — the location feels fixed while the conditions vary. The album opens at “25°C,” a sunshower of soft hums and keys. As the longest piece, it serves to establish stability, the inflection point where any move above or below this temperate breeze breaks the bliss. Given James’ proclivity for organized chaos in her production, this scene is fleeting, naturally. From that utopia, we plummet to the most melancholic read on the meter, “0°C,” its isolated synth line traversing a hailstorm of steely beats and static. Next, the dial jumps for the propulsive standout “17°C.” Like a timelapse of springtime in the city, the single accelerates across a frenzy of frames; car horns, screeching brakes, and crosswalk chatter fill the pauses between rapid jolts of multi-shaped percussion. For portions of the work, James leans neo-classical, rendering pensive vignettes of cascading piano keys and warm delay. “2°C (Intermittent Rain)” ends the Side on a short and stormy loop; a resulting sense of reset permeates the B-Side’s opener, “10°C.” The producer mingles intuitively on echoed organ, locking into and abandoning atypical rhythms that suggest her jazz-oriented interests. “4°C” and “30°C” display the range of James’ vocal experiments. The former chops and pitches her voice to a rhythmic, otherworldly effect, the latter reveals James at her most straightforward (she cites Deftones’ Chino Moreno and American Football’s Mike Kinsella as inspirations), singing tenderly and unobstructed for nearly the duration before beats collide in the climax. Whatever The Weather closes at “36°C,” while a sweltering heat by any standards the track eases along comfortably on a chorus of synth waves, acting as an apt bookend for this evocative, sky-tracing collection that started in a similar state. Cyclical, seasonal, and unpredictable, true to its namesake. Artist Whatever The Weather Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Ghostly Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 25°C 0°C 17°C 14°C 2°C (Intermittent Rain) 10°C 6°C 4°C 30°C 36°C Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View PaisIel Unconscious Death Wishes Leftfield / Experimental | Rocket Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd October 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders PaisIel Unconscious Death Wishes £20.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rocket Recordings SKU: LAUNCH213 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gazelle Twin Pastoral – Indies Only Leftfield / Experimental | Anti-Ghost Moon Ray | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st September 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gazelle Twin Pastoral – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Anti-Ghost Moon Ray SKU: AGMR036LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fennesz B�cs Leftfield / Experimental | Editions Mego | 1LP Released 28th April 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fennesz B�cs £17.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Editions Mego SKU: EMEGO165 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View tetema Geocidal Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Ipecac | 1LP Released 16th February 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders tetema Geocidal £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Ipecac SKU: IPC167LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Classixx Faraway Reach Leftfield / Experimental | Innovative Leisure | 1LP Released 3rd June 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Classixx Faraway Reach £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Innovative Leisure SKU: IL2038V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suzanne Ciani Lixiviation Electronica | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 20th July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzanne Ciani Lixiviation £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Finders Keepers SKU: FKR053LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stuart Bogie Morningside Leftfield / Experimental | DFA/SCD | 1LP Released 3rd November 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stuart Bogie Morningside £30.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: DFA/SCD SKU: DFA2696LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ilhan Ersahin' sIstanbul Sessions Solar Plexus Leftfield / Experimental | Nublu | 1LP Released 13th July 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ilhan Ersahin' sIstanbul Sessions Solar Plexus £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Nublu SKU: NUB0040LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elena Setién Moonlit Reveries Leftfield / Experimental | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th January 2024 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elena Setién Moonlit Reveries £32.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL601LPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View On Man On Man Leftfield / Experimental | Houndstooth | 1LP Released 15th July 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Man On Man £21.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Houndstooth SKU: HTH154 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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