Across a remarkable run of releases in barely half a decade,
London’s Loraine James has established her identity
through a blend of refined composition, gritty
experimentation, and unpredictable, intricate electronic
programming. While titles released under her given name
on Hyperdub tend toward IDM-influenced, vocal-heavy
collaborations, James reserves her Ghostly
International-signed alias, Whatever The Weather, for an
inward gaze that explores innate “emotional temperature”
and environment (shown in degree-based track titling). Her
second full-length is a markedly warmer outing compared
to its predecessor, as signaled by the shift from LP1’s arctic
cover photo to LP2’s desert climes.