Hello

Half Japanese - Hello

Hello
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Artist: Half Japanese
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-06
Music Label: Alternative Tentacles
Soundtracks:
  1. All The Angels Said Go To Her
  2. Patty
  3. Temptation
  4. The Legend Of Hillbilly John
  5. Mississippi
  6. No Doubt
  7. 10:00 AM
  8. Jump Into The Mess
  9. Red Sun
  10. Whatever The Outcome
  11. Best Of The Best
  12. Summer Nights
  13. Our Turn
  14. Starlight
  15. The Good Side
  16. Super-size It
  17. Happyland

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Free Music Review: Half Japanese: Refined Retards?
Hit: 5 Stars

Jad Fair along with longtime bandmates John Sluggett, Jason Willett and Gilles Rieder somehow manage to keep evolving and stay fresh. While most bands that manage to make it to their their 13th release get repetitive, this band sounds better than ever and Jad continues to explore new visions of romantic love at its peakiest.
Paradoxically refined and retarded, they squirm out from under your thumb just when you think you've figured them out. It's one helluva entertaining album and highly listenable by any standards, even to those who found their early stuff to be rough listening (refer to Lester Bang's Guide To Horrible Noise). They surprise with lots of sonic interest and a stunning variety of approaches on Hello's 17 songs.
This record features sweet sounding natural instruments like thick Hammond organs, crystal pianos and lots and lots of guitars.
"And the Angels Said Go To Her" opens Hello with a laid back feel and goofy accents that suggest a musical game of leap frog.
"10 AM" is a wild punk-rock rocket ride with upside-yo'-head guitar explosions, guitar missile whistling sounds and a guitar 'solo' that sounds suspiciously like a broken guitar cable buzzing.
The gem, "Red Sun," is intimate, lovely and languid with sweet ringing guitars that collide with innocence. Actually, there are several fine sounding ballads here and on "No Doubt" you can hear Jad declaring his love (our love) "maple syrup pure." "Summer Nights" unpredictably mutates from teenage hand-holding purity into hideously tortured guitar tones, kinda wack-a-doo. While "Jump Into This Mess" conjures a funky bouncy hoedown groove, "Best of the Best" might have been Diamond Dogs' alien spawn with its crunchy circular guitar riff and hand claps. The ironically titled "Happyland" takes the record out with a crawly, ominous vibe and Sluggett's Dark Shadows piano echoes in the canyons of your mind after the record ends.
A couple of weaker tracks could have been omitted: "Our Turn" reworks the old Steam riff and not much happens, "Whatever The Outcome" actually sounds pretty good, like Echoes era Pink Floyd, but it's too sombre compared to the forward-looking vibe of the rest of the album.
As a whole, Hello is a very fine release. This time it shows that Half Japanese may be slightly touched, touched by genius too.
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