Nearly a half century after the frantic, drum pummeling, free-associating “Calling All Girls,” Half Japanese’s Jad Fair is still at it, both on his own account and under the now storied Half Japanese name. A pair of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, faux-naive 2025 releases attest to the fact that cynicism has no hold on Fair, even now, and that lots of things still rhyme quite excellently with “heart.”
Adventure is latest of somewhere north of 20 Half Japanese albums. It features a long-standing line-up, whose members have been in place since the late 1980s: Jason Willett on bass, Gilles-Vincent Rieder on drums and percussion, John Sluggett on guitar, piano and bass, and Mick Hobbs, sadly, on guitar for the very last time. He passed away in 2024. Euan Hinshelwood, who also…

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