Invincible, by Half Japanese

Invincible

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1.	Swept Away 03:11	buy track
2.	Love Explosion 03:03	buy track
3.	The Puppet People 03:24	buy track
4.	Return Of The Vampire 03:29	buy track
5.	Or Ever Will 01:34	buy track
6.	No More 02:13	buy track
7.	All At Once 02:29	buy track
8.	The Walking Dead 02:00	buy track
9.	Forever In My Heart 04:09	buy track
10.	What Are You Gonna Do? 02:42	buy track
11.	It's Here 02:29	buy track
12.	Invincible 02:47	buy track
13.	No Wonder 02:22	buy track
14.	It Has Me 03:06	buy track
15.	Indestructible 02:40	buy track

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Puppet people, vampires and the walking dead frequent the world of Jad Fair’s songwriting - outside of those interruptions he’s besotted. Maybe even in love. He feels invincible and as the closing instrumental cut ‘Indestructible’ floats off into the ether there’s a feeling of job done; we can rest tonight; everything is good; we are loved and in love.

“Hooray for love!” Jad intones on ‘All At Once’. It comes to us all… eventually.

On their last excursion into the studio, Pop Matters summed them up as so: “Half-Japanese are a respected institution. They've been making noise since the late '70s. Noise is an important word here because one defining feature of the group is this.”

Nothing changes. Fair, J, an inspiration on the Elephant Six groups, Kurt Cobain and a host of others remains a rose-coloured visionary, mocked by monsters and loved by girls. It begs the question, is penultimate track ‘It Has Me’ about the former or the latter? As ever, this is a two-way thing, you make as much of Half Japanese as you want to. You have to put in the work, have the imagination.

Their new studio album continues to be uncategorizable, joyous, detuned, quizzical, alluring, childlike, charming, innocent, questioning. ‘Invincible’ is a celebration of sound. It’s pop music for those outside of pop music. It has songs for those still bedevilled by one liners and abrasive melodies.

Half Japanese are Jad Fair, John Sluggett, Gilles-Vincent Rieder, Jason Willett and Mick Hobbs.

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released February 22, 2019

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