Larme de Crocodile

Larme de Crocodile
Studio album by Kahimi Karie
Released March 25, 1997
Recorded Tokyo, Paris
Genre Shibuya-kei, indie pop, alternative rock
Length 41:26
Label CRUE-L Records
Producer Kahimi Karie, Kenji Takimi (executive)
Kahimi Karie chronology
Larme de Crocodile
(1997)
Kahimi Karie
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic (3/5) [1]

Larme de Crocodile (in English, "crocodile tears"; Japanese name: クロコダイルの涙) is the first Kahimi Karie full-length, released after a string of six EPs and the Momus-penned Japanese chart hit "Good Morning World". It was released in 1997 by CRUE-L Records and was only available in the U.S. and Europe as a Japanese import. The album featured five additional Momus collaborations (including two with music by accordionist Coba), as well as songs written by Yasuharu Konishi of Pizzicato Five and Philippe Katerine.

Larme de crocodile contains references to many diverse musical genres, such as jazz, French chanson and electronic music. It can be considered an important release in the then-booming Shibuya-kei subgenre of Japanese pop. Karie explained that "with Larme de [c]rocodile, I wanted to make really, really melancholic music, to be alone".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Alcohol" (Yasuharu Konishi) – 5:52
  2. "Superfreak" (Coba/Momus) – 4:36
  3. "David Hamilton" (Momus) – 4:15
  4. "Electorophone" (Philippe Katerine) – 2:36
  5. "Paris, Texas" (Aiha Higurashi) – 2:59
  6. "Lolitapop Dollhouse" (Momus) – 4:09
  7. "Tiny King Kong" (Coba/Momus) – 5:17
  8. "Cat From the Future" (Momus) – 5:14
  9. "私の人生、人生の夏" ("Watashi no Jinsei, Jinsei no Natsu") (Yasuharu Konishi) – 4:46
  10. "Les leçons de français" (Philippe Katerine) – 1:42

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