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- Record Label: Ghostly Int'l
- Release Date: Mar 14, 2025
- Summary: The second full-length release for Whatever the Weather, the side project for London-based electronic producer Loraine James, which includes field recordings.
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- Record Label: Ghostly Int'l
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental Ambient, IDM
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Mar 17, 2025Whatever the Weather clearly feels more "outdoors" than the music James makes under her own name, but it's just as introspective and personal, and the project's second album is another powerfully expressive work.
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The WireApr 9, 2025Whatever The Weather II showcases James’s creativity and technical mastery as much as her capacity for emotional subtlety, depth and warmth. [May 2025, p.62]
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Mar 17, 2025The result is some of the most direct, spontaneous music in James’ catalog. Tracks feel less like songs or compositions than tone poems, mood pieces that flow naturally from one to the next, like clouds changing shape high overhead.
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UncutMar 17, 2025It's all fairly dry, but listen closely and its charms emerge. [Mar 2025, p.41]
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MojoMar 17, 2025Central to Whatever The Westher II is an underlying hum and crackle that offsets its engrossing sound design. [Apr 2024, p.84]