Things Gone And Things Here Still [LP]

Mister Water Wet - Things Gone And Things Here Still [LP]

Mister Water Wet returns to Soda Gong with Things Gone and Things Here Still, 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. The 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. A 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. Things Gone and Things Here Still finds Iggy Romeu at his most expansive, offering up a generous record of open spaces and porous boundaries. Also featuring more eaze, Ben Bondy, and Sleepdial. Die-cut sleeve, gloss laminate finish. Includes download code. 
01. Make Sure You Get (2:45)_x000D_
02. Proper Pulp (5:14)_x000D_
03. Finders Keepers (2:32)_x000D_
04. Sweetheart (Penny) (4:24)_x000D_
05. Pith (4:24)_x000D_
06. Hourglass (5:13)_x000D_
07. Tail at One End Teeth At The Other (4:02)_x000D_
08. Snakeskins (3:53)_x000D_
09. Anchor Around The Ankles (5:11)_x000D_
10. Big Beso (2:16)