Half Japanese – Jump into Love'Jump Into Love is the new album from Half Japanese, true DIY noise rock royalty, led by the ever effervescent Jad Fair. Its a meeting of minds, a coming together from the worlds 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,

the songs tracing technological changes and social change

Johnson’s wife Annie had listened to him work with dozens of collaborators over the decades but

So many people felt this same sense of anxiety and disconnection

See/Saw to name a few

Take lead single Pink Lunettes

The Slave 6

Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness

They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of space – and their collective resonance is infinite and eternal

clever without being cynical

this is an album where the room reacts to the music taking shape around it

with lyrics that resonate with experience and melodies that chime

The seething resentment