Larme de Crocodile is the first Kahimi Karie full-length, released after a string of six EPs and the Momus

Momus (artist)

Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...

-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 accordianist

Accordion

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 Coba

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), as well as songs written by Yasuharu Konishi

Yasuharu Konishi

is a Japanese musician, composer and DJ. He was a founding member of Pizzicato Five and the only founding member to stay with the group until its breakup in 2002...

 of Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five

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 and Philippe Katerine

Philippe Katerine

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.

Larme de crocodile contains references to many diverse musical genres, such as jazz

Jazz

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, French chanson and electronic music

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. It can be considered an important release in the then-booming Shibuya kei sub-genre of Japanese pop. Karie explained that "with Larme de [c]rocodile, I wanted to make really, really melancholic music, to be alone." http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/kahimi_karie.shtml

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