catalogue

KARIU, KENJI

RAIN / WATER (BRUIT DIRECT DISQUES)

KARIU, KENJI - RAIN / WATER 164987
format:
1 LP
release:
05.07.2024
label:
BRUIT DIRECT DISQUES
item ID:
164987
barcode:
5056688825966
Rain/Water is the fourth album by Tokyo's Kariu Kenji. Following 2021's Sekai, also on Bruit Direct Disques, rain/water is a gorgeous haze of song, a modern driftwork that's creatively rich, and full of fleeting sensation.

These twelve lush pop songs point in multiple directions, outwards to bossa nova, modern R&B and soul, ambient bliss-outs, city pop confections, and electronica.

But rain/water also has a sly experimentalism at its core, the kind of experimentation that doesn't need to call attention to itself, but that exists 'between the cracks' of the songs - in small, curious gestures of arrangement, in a sudden twist in melody, or an unexpected detour in a song's narrative.

In this way, they share something of the stylistic free range in other great recent avant-pop moments - think, perhaps, of the music of Maher Shalal Hash Baz; Stereolab's more late-night, hermetic moments, or High Llamas' recent Hey Panda.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. I SAW YOU IN A DREAM
  • 1.2. WATER
  • 1.3. BOAT
  • 1.4. AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT
  • 1.5. SWEETS DREAM
  • 1.6. GOING THROUGH
  • 1.7. FLOWER NAME
  • 1.8. CONVENIENCE STORE
  • 1.9. SAND
  • 1.10. BUBBLES
  • 1.11. SPIDER
  • 1.12. UMBRELLA