RA Exchange

Welcome to Resonant Advisors Exchange.

I'm the Exchange's Senior Producer, Chloe Lulay. Welcome to Resonant Advisors Exchange.

I'm the Exchange's senior producer, Chloe Lula.

Today's guest is an artist who has spent the last decade,

proving that electronic music is an insufficient label for what she does.

Since her landmark hyperdub debut for you and I in 2019, British artist Lorraine James has moved through the world of IDM, glitch, and ambient, with a rare kind of emotional transparency.

Whether she's producing club music under her own name or making experimental music as whatever the weather, her work often feels like a diary of her life and her creative evolution.

As any artist will tell you, the path from one landmark album to the next is rarely a straight line.

Following the immense success of 2023's gentle confrontation, James found herself at a crossroads.

In this exchange, she sits down with R.A. editor Bella Aquilina just ahead of a new album

release on Hyperdub to talk about the difficult second act of her career, a process marked

by self-doubt, creative blocks, and the surprising freedom found in the word pop.

The two talk about the 11 degrees sound, which is how the gray, undecided

London weather shapes James's sonic palette, how she navigates imposter syndrome after a number one

record, her quote-unquote failed stint as a DJ, her love for MOT and Corsica Studios, and why she's

finally ready to leave the bedroom and return

to the dance floor. James has a new album coming out on Hyperdob. On May 8th, it's called Detached

from The Rest of You, and it features heavy-hitting collaborations from artists like Tirza, Finn Dobson,

and Alan Spearhawk of the band Lowe. This is a conversation about the exhaustion of the creative process and the lightness

that comes once the work is finally done.

This is the RA Exchange with Lorraine James.

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