{"title":"Soda Gong","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"things-gone-and-things-here-still","title":"Things Gone and Things Here Still","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird album for Soda Gong by Iggy Romeu’s inimitable Mister Water Wet project\u003cbr\u003edeaturing Memotone, more eaze, K. Freund, Ben Bondy, Sleepdial and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMister Water Wet returns to Soda Gong with \u003cem\u003eThings Gone and Things Here Still\u003c\/em\u003e, an album that radically expands the project’s purview while preserving the homespun warmth and oblique tactility that have long defined Iggy Romeu’s work. Where earlier records tilted toward the dusty swing of sample-based beatcraft or spectral minimalist jazz, here Romeu opens the frame to a more ensemble-minded approach, inviting a stellar cast of supporting musicians, including SG alumni Memotone and K. Freund, into the fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is an album that feels both broader and more intimate, with live instrumentation such as piano, strings, and reeds woven into MWW’s signature lattice of hand percussion, production sleights, and slippery time signatures. Acoustic and electronic textures bend toward each other like plants angling for the same light: bowed strings blur into vaporous pads, brushed drums scatter under riffing guitars, a horn phrase lingers in the same space as a cracked cassette loop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tension between decay and presence - the “things gone” and the “things here still” - runs throughout the record. At times, the music evokes a chamber session refracted through waterlogged tape; at others, it recalls the afterimage of a hip-hop instrumental slowed into an oneiric haze. In the world of MWW, memory functions less as nostalgia and more as a living fabric - mutable and resonant. \u003cem\u003eThings Gone and Things Here Still \u003c\/em\u003efinds Iggy Romeu at his most expansive, offering up a generous record of open spaces and porous boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soda Gong","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53387317215563,"sku":"R9200-2160","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/65b9a186-ae6b-a5fd-260b-7c4159f25ae6.jpg?v=1757932063"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/soda-gong.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}