Today Raime share “Glassed,” the second cut off their forthcoming 2xLP Tooth, due out June 10th on Blackest Ever Black. The London duo continues to craft exquisite, dark-tinged tension using a fierce brand of sonic minimalism as their guide. Combining elements of dub, jungle, and post-rock, like many of the artists on BEB, Raime’s music inhabits its own space between electronic experimentalism and art-rock.
Back in 2012, when Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead sat down with Resident Advisor‘s Todd L. Burns to discuss the records and music which influence their sound, the pair’s eclectic collection included psych-leaning Japanese artists like Takehisa Kosugi and Les Rallizes Denudes, doom pioneers Earth, obscure sludge punkers The Sickness, as well as experimental jungle from Omni Trio, techno from Jeff Mills, and grime from Jon E Cash. Unifying those interests around their love for intense sub-bass, cinemagraphic arrangements, and psycho-activating acoustics, Raime continue to create a deeply affecting ambience filled with urban dread and dark beauty.
“Glassed” comes housed in plenty of negative space and it serves to accentuate the duo’s deftly crafted tension. Ultimately built around a terse snippets of razor-sharp guitar, this elegant cut has been essentialized through rigorous editing. With no wasted motion and everything in it’s place, Raime use their hyper-focused approach to exact a surgically precise range of anxiety and emotion.
