{"product_id":"rain-water","title":"Rain \/ Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eRain\/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\u0026amp;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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bruit Direct Disques","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50446727840075,"sku":"2205836","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Kenj_Kariu_-_RainWater_23afcf43_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727062234","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/rain-water","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}