Gentle Confrontation, by Loraine James

Gentle Confrontation by Loraine James, released 22 September 2023 1. Gentle Confrontation 2. 2003 3. Let U Go ft. keiyaA 4. Déjà Vu ft. RiTchie 5. Prelude of Tired of Me 6. Glitch The System (Glitch Bitch 2) 7. I DM U 8. One Way Ticket To The Midwest (Emo) ft. Corey Mastrangelo 9. Cards With The Grandparents 10. While They Were Singing ft. Marina Herlop 11. Try For Me ft. Eden Samara 12. Tired Of Me 13. Speechless ft. George Riley 14. Disjointed (Feeling Like A Kid Again) 15. I'm Trying To Love Myself 16. Saying Goodbye ft. Contour 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.