Description
‘Jump Into Love’ is the new album from Half Japanese, true DIY noise-rock royalty, led by the ever-effervescent Jad Fair. It’s a meeting of minds, a coming together from the world’s favourite indie-alt-rock outsiders. Atypically out there and off-kilter, the album wears its heart on its sleeve through a cascade of new, dark and brooding songs from the band who would be king.
Loved by Kurt Cobain, Daniel Johnston, Penn Jillette and outsiders everywhere, Half Japanese continue their quest for answers; creating a soundscape for a post-zombie land where bells chime and it’s OK to say “Yes”. It’s another adventure; series 20 from an introspective parallel world where the super prolific Jad Fair cogitates on life, love, giants, the possessed and even bigger issues that simply swell the brain.
Musing on the writing process, Jad explains “I feel a need to do music and do song writing. It's something I really miss when I'm not doing it. There's a certain amount of tranquillity that's obtained from the fact that you can be working on songs each day. I think you use that certain portion of your brain that is otherwise not used. I kind of kind of prefer using it than not using it.”
Half Japanese currently includes Jad with John Sluggett, Gilles-Vincent Rieder, Mick Hobbs and Jason Willett, a veritable who’s who of DIY indie culture. ‘Jump Into Love’ was recorded at Tempo House, Baltimore, Russian Recording, Bloomington Indiana, Studio de la Trappe, Donneville France and la Casamurada, Tarragona Spain. The album was mixed by long time Half Japanese sparring partner Jason Willett at his home in Baltimore, Maryland.
“Amid hard-riff jams, swinging ditties, lovelorn ballads and other catchy gems, Jad persistently breathes life into the Half Japanese”
- NPR
“One of indie rock’s most reliable sources of positivity”
- Pitchfork
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
A1. It's OK
A2. We Are Giants
A3. True Love Will Save The Day
A4. Listen to the Bells Chime
A5. Jump Into Love
A6. The Answer is Yes
SIDE B
B1. Shining Sun
B2. This Isn't Funny
B3. Step Inside
B4. Here She Comes
B5. Shining Stars
B6. Zombie World
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Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator,
founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays and an authority
on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She was mentored by David Mancuso at his
seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David
Mancuso Presents The Loft and worked together on David’s record label The Loft Audiophile
Library of Music. In 2000, David told Time Out New York City “ She is very devoted and very
pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with
the equipment, to fill in for me.” She is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of
the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world’s best sound
systems and dance floors.
Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in
some cases, our lives. Colleen founded Classic Album Sundays as a stance against the
increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the
world’s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents and the website
and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews,
videos, playlists and more. BBC Breakfast Television remarked, “Classic Album Sundays treat
our best-loved records like great symphonies.”
She has been a radio host and DJ since the age of fourteen and today hosts Balearic Breakfast,
Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM. She also wrote, co-
produced and hosted the Classic Album Sundays series ‘This Women’s Work’ for PRX, ‘Sounds
of a City’ series on BBC 6 Music and ‘Turntable Tales’ on BBC Radio 4. As a producer Colleen
has remixed Roisin Murphy, Mildlife, The Rapture, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Beardyman, Candi
Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, Chaka Khan & more
under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek with Ashley Beedle. Along with
former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus.
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