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Continuing their run of EPs and widening their scope, Raime´s return with "We Can´t Be That Far From The Beginning" isn´t just another turn in this progression, but sees the UK duo starting their own label RR and opening up anticipation for more to come and maybe even other artists to rise. While Am I Using Content or Is Content Using   Me? saw Raime opening their style up for the unimaginable flood of information, snippets, and samples in an unusually reggeaton colored palette, We Can´t Be That Far builds on these experiences while folding back on elements of their studio albums. From the start "In Media Res" is the seamless connection to Am I Using Content : The chromatic stutter winds up before being underlined with a bouncy synth line. However, a departure is imminent after only a minute. The vocal sample "I am tired" peaks in repetition and a call and response like scheme, underlined by strings and a complete dissolution of any repetition, bea...

Since the dread dub exploration of their 2016 sophomore album, Raime have been steadily shifting their sound in every EP. First offering Notion 2 Notion  gave insight into more club-oriented attacks in the same sonic universe of previous album Tooth . The tunnel these two tracks dugs, the bass, sparse drums and compressed feeling of dread and loss moved slightly faster than the previous year. Despite this, they didn´t stray too far, blended nicely into the known universe Raime build.  A bigger venture indicative of what would happen with their main project came under the Yally moniker and their Dread Risk / U-Eff-O 7-inch for Diagonal. Here the duo sped up the comatose drums and bass into frantic hammering, incorporated vocal snippets and delivered a direct connection into the jungle and footwork roots of the abstract main project. What came to the fore in this release was a clear understanding of sonic storytelling. While Raime and Tooth certainly don´t lack in t...

In their previous album , Ones And Sixes Low laid much of the groundwork for Double Negative . Still, this records sounds fresh and like an unexpected move. Here the band abandons many tropes and their known modus operandi for a noise-heavy aural experience. A set of songs that shed simplistic forms and structures to build a haunting piece of music that points towards the capabilities of modern dream pop and rock that most bands will never fully embraces or consider. Writing the first draft for this review, I fell into the rabbit hole of analysis (read it below). Trying to actually tell something meaningful about the album ended up in a track by track description of the twists and turns Double Negative takes and the aural changes the whole experience entails. Rereading my own words, it felt like a telling failure in capturing the onslaught of sound. Listing in on Low´s previous work, Double Negative feels like a secret accusation and the breaking point of comprehensib...