Bleep

Straying from the personal odes of her 2019 breakthrough LP For You And I, UK electronica mastermind Loraine James opens her music up to a forum of collaborators with Nothing. Lila Tirando a Violeta’s vocal refrain provides the club-ready, laser-grasping title track with a nihilistic counterpoint, as Farsi-language emcee Tardast matches the industrial-techno discord of ‘Marg’ with saturnine musings. Pseudo-slow jam ‘Don’t You See It?’ is a windswept breather, tinted with misty-eyed, end of summer melancholia, while ‘The Starting Point’ sees James go it alone with a piano-lead masterclass in D&B rhythmic switching.