We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love

by Half Japanese

We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Ralph Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:35
  • Community rating: 3.34/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: 1/2 Japanese

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing Jad Fair's uninhibited pursuit of amateurish genius, the record is a dizzying, lo-fi collision of noise rock and shambolic art-punk. The abrasive, wildly out-of-tune guitar assaults are contrasted by an underlying sense of earnest, quirky romance.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, lo-fi, noisy, avant-garde, eccentric, minimal, jangly

Tracklist

  1. Every Hour (2:45)
  2. Elevator Boy (2:20)
  3. Gloria (4:09)
  4. Ear (1:33)
  5. The Titanic (1:49)
  6. Our Eyes (3:42)
  7. Spin (0:41)
  8. Up and Down (0:50)
  9. All of Me (1:35)
  10. Hand Without a Body (0:59)
  11. Going Home (4:13)
  12. Three Rings (1:47)
  13. How Did You Know (1:32)
  14. Then We Walk (0:13)
  15. Secret (2:15)
  16. Best (2:09)
  17. The House I Live In (1:01)
  18. Run (1:52)

Credits

  • 1/2 Japanese - primary artist, written-by
  • Jad Fair - artwork [drawings], musician, written-by
  • Rex Ray - graphics
  • David Fair - musician
  • David Stansky - musician
  • Gilles Rieder - musician
  • Hank Beckmeyer - musician
  • Howard Wuelfing - musician

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