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Loraine James: Detached From the Rest of You

Pitchfork·Matthew Blackwell·6 months ago
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Loraine James didn’t have much fun making Detached From the Rest of You . She was feeling stuck, lost, painfully self-conscious. When she finished the record, she decided to name it after her alienated state: a person detached from others, a mind detached from its body. James is forthright about her struggle on the album itself: “Some days I think about quitting this whole thing/Seems like I sulk in my own shit/Oh Loraine, but where’s the passion?” she murmurs on the vignette “Seems Like I.” In interviews, too, James presents her new work as an obstacle rather than a detour, something she had to overcome in order to return to her thrillingly off-kilter club music.…

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