As with any album that is three records long,
1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts unwittingly shows
Half Japanese's true roots. Over the three records, the band "covers" such minimalists as
the Velvet Underground,
the Stooges, and
Jonathan Richman, as well as deconstructing such wordsmiths as
Bruce Springsteen and
Bob Dylan. Although they would have you believe that their untuned, almost unlistenable, instrumental clatter is the result of being so enthusiastic that they didn't bother to learn how to play their instruments, it's just the logical, inevitable intellectual extension of
Richman's naivete and
the Velvet Underground's stripped-down guitar.
Half Japanese is consciously primitive and amateurish. AMG.
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