Half Japanese – Our Solar System

40th anniversary edition of Our Solar System, Jad and David Fair’s third studio album as Half Japanese. Originally released in 1984, Our Solar System is a wild and chaotic outsider take on the history of pop music. Including their suitably avant-garde renditions of The 13th Floor Elevators Youre Gonna Miss Me, The Velvet Undergrounds European Son, Buddy Hollys Because I Love You which is preceded by their own Girl Athletes powered by a reverbed Bo Diddley rhythm. A bravura performance of detuned excitement, 40 minutes of beautiful at times frantic disorder. Filled with guitar and sax arm wrestling and bizarre sidesteps including a fuzzy take on Griegs Hall Of The Mountain King which devolves into the standard Louie Louie plus a jittering version of Bobby Lords Did You Miss Me. A prime example of lo-fi garage exuberance full of romance, confidence, and verve.