The Range returns with “Bicameral”
The electronic producer’s first new solo single since his 2016 project Potential.
THe Range. Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg
Since 2016, James Hinton has kept his electronic music project The Range in relative hibernation. That year saw the release of the album Potential, a pulsing project built on samples of aspiring musicians pulled from YouTube (could such an optimistic vision of the internet be released today? I hope so). Since then, he's teamed up with Jim-E-Stack on the single "With You" (which was remixed by Yaeji) and "Last" featuring Tourist.
Today, he steps out with "Bicameral," his first solo single since Potential dropped. Inspired by U.K. garage and classic rave, "Bicameral" sends an exhilarated tornado of breakbeats and pristine, bittersweet melodies to blow away all the clouds and leave only the dancefloor remaining. Listen below.
"Bicameral" was written over the space of five years, The Range said in a press statement:
“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.
