(I Say Go!)

“Go to Brisbane, you big-talking man…”

Local four-piece J-Pan Fan – named for June Carter-Cash’s pronunciation of ‘Japan fan’ in the song Jackson – sound like they could easily have slotted into that period of late ’90s rock-chick frontwoman boom, somewhere between Magic Dirt and Garbage. Maybe I just think that because of the riot grrrl shouts at the end of their song New Skies, straight out of the Kathleen Hanna playbook. It’s not all about Emma Carton’s man-eater voice, however. Those shouts come at the end of a particularly epic guitar break; Number One Song has an almost country twang and fuzzily potent rising action. 12:30 is a bluesy late-night song about the feeling you get when you’ve worked too much and stumble out into the real world at an ungodly hour, disconnected and vacant. I’ve never heard anyone do a song about that feeling before and I doubt I’ll hear it done again as well as J-Pan Fan do.

JODY MACGREGOR

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