Released last summer Reflection, the third album by electronic composer Loraine James, was rightly cited in several lists of the best albums of the year. Until then, the work of the Londoner invented new ways of making us dance, but the confinements inspired her to explore sound spaces more conducive to reflection. With its titers expressed in degrees Celsius, Whatever the Weather could be described as an ambient album, conceived from improvisations with synthesizers (a Harold Budd-style piano sometimes surfaces) and voice (his own and that of Jonnine Standish, of the Australian experimental rock group HTRK), but his interpretation of this atmospheric music embraces rhythm and dynamic harmonies, reminiscent of the sound british 1990s ambient. Delicately deconstructed breakbeat on 0°Cdrum and bass knit tightly on 17°Cthe percussion twirls even further, dully on 4°Cmore orderly on 30°C, which even sounds like a pop song. An endearing album, light in appearance, complex in its details.
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