HALF JAPANESE - Why Not? LP art punk YO LA TENGO's IRA KAPLAN

YO LA TENGO's IRA KAPLAN and GEORGIA HUBLEY were visiting from America

The first side of this vinyl symbollically equals to the circular shape

nude art school model guitar prodigy Ruyter Suys

cutting a swathe through the indie scene throughout the 1980s

They tug at important moments

HALF JAPANESE - Why Not? LP art punk YO LA TENGO's IRA KAPLANHalf Japanese have returned to peel further layers from their onion. They have a new album that's a square further on in their unpredictable musical snakes and ladders board. Why Not? is a magical thing its Springsteens Born To Run recorded in a cupboard, its an ode to love, its a Wire song with two duelling guitarists being Zappa on helium, its Parquet Courts in a tantrum, its The Crickets contorted into ? and The Mysterians, its everywhere and