Building Something Beautiful for Me
Loraine James
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Release Date: 28/10/2022
Album opener 'Maybe If I' riffs on Eastman staple Stay On It. Its arrestingly pretty central melody is reshaped into a living, undulating canvas on which James' IDM-inspired beat production flickers and swirls. A repeated vocal line pulls Eastman's towering work of modern minimalism towards reclassification as a 'song'. Next follows 'The Perception of Me (Crazy N-)', channelling Eastman's righteous anger and knowing reclamation of the brutally charged N-word into a quasi-ambient exploration of Eastman piano samples set to skittering beats. Elsewhere, opening side B, 'Enfield, Always' acts as a creative response to our past master.
1: Maybe If I (Stay On It)
2: The Perception of Me (Crazy Nigger)
3: Choose to Be Gay (Femenine)
4: Building Something Beautiful for Me (Holy Presence of Joan D'Arc)
5: Enfield, Always
6: My Take
7: Black Excellence (Stay On It)
8: What Now? (Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan D'Arc)