Jump into love

"While some of the core elements of the group's identity are still intact along with Fair's untrained vocals and wild, scattershot delivery, 'Jump into Love' feels like a new step in an ongoing evolution ... Less serious-feeling moments like "Zombie World" and "This Isn't Funny" call back to the juvenile spirit of early Half Japanese, but the majority of 'Jump into Love' finds Fair and his band communicating messages of joy and promise with strangely heavy tunes that don't quite sonically match their optimistic sentiments".

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"Half Japanese continue a run of fine late career albums with their 20th studio release, 'Jump Into Love'. These tunes wear their hearts on their sleeves, but after almost 50 years of making music Jad Fair's art is more innate and instinctive than naive".

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"'Jump Into Love' (...) is the first proper Half Japanese album since 2020. It's more fully formed than [Jad Fair's] solo work but gathers the same sense of melody and arhythmic quirk on a series of Zappa-esque jazz-infused avant-pop songs, interspersed by [a] sunshine burst of lo-fi boppers".