![]() ![]() Near to the Wild Heart of Life's mood proceeds down a road more tender than Japandroids have most famously traversed. It's as if there's a metronome in his brain that's struggling to power down. Indulging my curiosity, the singer-guitarist habitually pounds the hotel restaurant table-off of which drummer Prowse munches a plate of tacos-with a casualness implying unconscious reflex rather than emphasis on whatever point he's making at a given moment. "There was a time when the band was given this label that had a lot to do with nostalgia that we never intended," King clarifies amid a day navigating media obligations at Chinatown's Wyndham Garden. As for Japandroids themselves, they're not in the business of living up to other people's ghosts. Ditto for Celebration's "Younger Us," and a fistful of others. ![]() Instead, they've been pigeonholed into memories, and not necessarily their own.įans should be forgiven, if not commended, if they rely on the ramshackle exuberance of "Young Hearts Spark Fire" from Post-Nothing to recall carefree-ish, optimistic-ish bygone sections of their lifetime. Since a surprise audience coalesced around 2009's Post-Nothing and their follow-up Celebration Rock mushroomed into the quintessential indie rock record of 2012, Brian King and David Prowse haven't been boxed into a style or one or two emblematic tracks. ![]()
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