{"product_id":"inner-war-delirium","title":"Inner War Delirium","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over two decades Jonathan Ketsav has used his Crave project to fray rap at its fringes, using Memphis and Houston's low-and-slow legacy to inform sounds that have as much in common with Merzbow as they do Tommy Wright III. Working under a variety of different monikers such as Lieu Noir, Sniper Bait and Soul Collector, the French producer is most prolific as Crave, and \u003ci\u003eInner War Delirium\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantial and broadly cinematic addition to his canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaisav approaches each track as if it's a scene from a movie, using real life experiences to explore separate characters and contrasting emotions. Using different narrators and disparate vocal styles, he navigates grim, blown-out landscapes, driving neon drenched trap synths and horror choirs against overdriven kicks and waterlogged industrial atmospheres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMengled field recordings, squealing static and gurgling synthesized bass opens 'PHYLLIS', goading the cautious with serrated, carnival synths and cacophonous vocals thet sway lugubriously between rap and grindcore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between dark and light, death and rebirth, is at the heart of \u003ci\u003eInner War Delirium\u003c\/i\u003e, rippling through every track's oozing amalgamation of inebriated hip-hop and buzzsaw noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatsav's sounds are an attempt to subject us to the physicality of his own life's puzzle, and he cuts them into vignettes like a director. On the album's final track, listeners are swiped from in front of the speakers and bundled into the trunk of a car, rain rattling on the metal and the album playing on in the distance. It's a way for the producer to turn the camera back on the audience and ask them to consider their own complicated reality - it's Crave's story, but everyone's a part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heat Crimes \/ Nyege Nyege Tapes","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50388013056331,"sku":"2046253","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Crave_-_Inner_War_Delirium_LP_4a462462_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726339119","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/inner-war-delirium","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}