Celebration Rock
The Vancouver's 2009 debut Post-Nothing was an emotional blast and also a sonic blur; the follow-up finds everything hitting louder and clearer than before, along with making a huge leap in songwriting technique.
Good work hardly ensures acclaim. Musicians in particular know the yawning apathy that typically greets every band at some point, something that doesn’t necessarily disappear after those tentative early gigs or releases. Good bands go unheralded all the time; the lucky ones earn a cult following, and only a small…
Celebration Rock is cigarette butts, spilt beer, hoarse voices and the smell of stale dope smoke. THE KIND OF RECORD THAT CAPS LOCK WAS INVENTED FOR.
Japandroids’ Brian King and David Prowse admitted that they were at the point of breaking up just after recording Post-Nothing, when it suddenly exploded and became a critically adored sensation.
You remember when you were about 16 or 17 at school, and there was that shit kid in your class who was kinda book-smart but mistook his own cod-cynicism for Wildean wit?
Celebration Rock finds a band that had previously claimed they “just wanna worry about those sunshine girls” with a few bigger ideas on their minds.
Japandroids - Celebration Rock review: Three years after their debut, Japandroids return with more of the same. But is that a bad thing?
Vancouver duo's second record is a short, sharp burst of nostalgia and adrenaline. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla