“After fourteen years of relative silence, Half Japanese are back to their usual prolific selves. At their highest heights, the oddball punk band were pumping out short, sharp blasts of shambolic rock music at an unstoppable rate, searing ear drums and influencing countless other artists in the process. ‘Overjoyed’, their 2014 return, signalled a new cleaner phase; the noise may have dissipated, bu”
“Four decades in, Jad Fair retains his innocent abandon on Half Japanese’s sixteenth studio album Hear the Lions Roar.”
