Fire Records to Reissue Half Japanese Catalog, Starting With Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts

On April 2, Fire Records will reissue the 1980 debut by lo-fi rock experimentalists Half Japanese, Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts. Brothers Jad and David Fair began their journey towards becoming home recording cult icons with this massive triple-LP, which included all manners of weird noise, plus deconstructed covers of tracks by Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Buddy Holly, and the Temptations. Fire's four-LP (or three-CD) reissue comes as a box set with a whole LP (or CD) of bo...