THE RANGE Resurfaces With New Single “Bicameral”

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THE RANGE

Resurfaces With New Single “Bicameral”

Teases New Album

 
The Range, the project of the Vermont-based musician and producer James Hinton, has resurfaced with new single, “Bicameral.” Following collaborations with Tourist, Yaeji and Jim-E Stack, “Bicameral” is the first piece of original music from Hinton since 2016’s Potential and its accompanying materials, and teases at more new music from Hinton throughout 2022. Zane Lowe will feature the track and interview Hinton on his Apple 1 New Music Daily show today at 9am PST.

Hinton on “Bicameral”: “Bicameral” represents the beginning of a move into a more ethereal space in my music. I began working on it while on a retreat in Nicaragua in 2016, and finished it in 2020 in Vermont, and so it uniquely captures a lot of the extreme positive and negative memories over that time. In this song the original vocal that I sampled – a song called “The Road” by the Eritrean singer Bemnet Tekleyohannes is “When you lighten” but I like that the interpretation of “When you lied - when you lied to me” is equally readable as the phrase repeats and changes.

 

 
The Range - Bicameral (Official Video)
Hinton made his Domino debut in 2016 with his third album Potential, which followed Nonfiction (2013) and The Big Dip (2011). He released Potential alongside Superimpose, a documentary which explored the making of the album and the voices that Hinton sampled throughout it. In April of 2018, Hinton relocated from Brooklyn to isolate himself in the Green Mountains of Vermont and work on new music in a fresh setting. Hinton builds on the techniques he established on Potential, seeking to create human connection in the Internet age through sampling vocalists from the corners of YouTube, Instagram, and Periscope. Stay tuned for more from The Range.
 

“Bicameral” single artwork
 
Previous praise for The Range:
Potential on "Best Albums of 2016" lists from Consequence of Sound, Exclaim, Stereogum, TIME

"Florida" on "Best Songs of 2016" lists from Entertainment Weekly, NPR Music, SPIN

“On this lovely, elegiac album, Mr. Hinton’s production is lush and precise, but what he’s most effective at is a sort of abstraction filter — these slow-burn songs serve as a way to feel deeply and get lost all at the same time.”
The New York Times

"James Hinton uses samples like he invented the entire concept... his music crackles with the air of discovery."
Pitchfork

"Hinton trawled YouTube for little-watched, intimate singing videos, stumbling on bedroom cover artists and struggling amateurs, and he filled Potential with their voices... Look past the memes and the fake news in your Facebook feed: there’s infinite beauty out there, just waiting to be discovered."
TIME

"Makes a shockingly strong case for the top tier of contemporary sample-indebted achievements (alongside pillars including Burial's Rival Dealer EP and Jamie xx's In Colour)"
Consequence of Sound

"A transcendent experience... His treatment of the people that he samples is considered and thoughtful; instead of coming across as exploitive, it feels like he's tapped into a previously unknown range of human emotions."
Stereogum

"As great an album as it is a story, and it proves that a sample needn't be well-known to be powerful."
PopMatters 
 
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