Few bands with guitars even try to attempt this and maybe one or two succeed, just enough to remind you that Japandroids do it better: since the blurry, beery, bashed-out Post-Nothing in 2009, Japandroids have learned how to delay gratification and make that delay as exciting as the actually big drop that everyone knows is right around the bend. Look, it's awesome to see fans and critics alike yell like hell to the heavens about Japandroids making drinking sound like a higher calling, dumbing out in a CAPS LOCK/all-emojis-and-exclamation-points manner usually reserved for Migos songs. It's the best thing they could've possibly done. Four and a half years after making the best rock record of the decade, Japandroids feel finally secure enough to write autobiography. The only real difference between Near to the Wild Heart and Celebration Rock is that King uses his first "I" within the first verse of the first song. But by taking himself out of the frame, Celebration Rock read like public domain, belonging to no one and thus big enough to include everyone.Įvery single review of Japandroids' new album Near to the Wild Heart of Life will undoubtedly kill a few paragraphs reiterating what you already know from the interviews: the production values are higher, the tempos are slower, there's more breathing room for everything that would otherwise be heard as narcing on the past proceedings acoustic guitars, synths, girlfriends. Or Japandroids are just viewed somewhere between the Darkness and Diarrhea Planet rather than the Replacements and Guns 'n Roses. If King claimed them as his own, he'd be deemed full of shit, or at least ironic. But while King-white t-shirt, jeans, leather jacket, tousled hair, tall and conventionally masculine-looks like an appropriate emissary for the tall tales told in Japandroids songs, at no point does the listener ever have to think of them as having happened to Brian King none of these stories really belong to him, nor should they because almost none of it is based in tangible reality. Granted, most Japandroids songs use first-person pronouns, frequently in the plural-blazing down Fire's Highway is even better when your best friend calls shotgun.
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