Charmed Life (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & Disco

Charmed Life (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & DiscoSpecial art edition with extra LP of unheard material on Blue Vinyl. 30 years on Half Japanese's Charmed Life is reissued for Record Store Day. Less love and more monster, Half Japanese sound more realised and fully formed on their sixth studio album.

the magnificently titled Audio Drag For Ego Slobs

Roger Keith 'Syd' Barrett was the primary songwriter

letting each track do it's thing

Thus songs like Away / Towards (a finer opening to an album you couldn't hope to hear) possess a gargantuan build-and-release infectious energy that juxtaposes with a subtext of a bi-polar approach to coping with loss

Mulatu Astatq and Muluken Melesse

the group Nouvelle Vague have paid tribute to this sumptuous "Frenchy" period clothed in the nihilism of punk

and remember the important things in life

and the first to top the album chart

who then recorded several LPs

searing opener "Sand on Fire

It's an album that cements Let's Eat Grandma as one of the most creative and exciting bands in the world right now

this record re-produces musically the simple pleasure of an afternoon spent in a sunny drawing room with a pack of crayons