12/15/2023 0 Comments Japandroids- Near to the Wild Heart of Life japandroids the house that heaven built![]() In other words, I was old enough to celebrate the way the characters in Celebration Rock celebrate, and young enough to do it with all the reckless abandon of youth. But I was also still a college student, still sharing an apartment with my college buddies, and still another year or so shy of when real-life responsibility would start to set in. ![]() As a recently-minted 21-year-old, I was old enough to get into bars and legally consume alcohol. I’ll forever be thankful that I was the age I was when Celebration Rock landed on May 29, 2012. They made any moment feel like a goddamn, out-of-hand, my-car-is-in-the-swimming-pool rager. The songs made it feel like a celebration. What were we celebrating, you may ask? Frankly, if you had Celebration Rock blasting out of a stereo back in 2012, it didn’t matter what you were celebrating, or whether you were celebrating at all. In 2012, with their second LP, Canadian rockers Japandroids served up music perfect for…well, for celebrating to. Rarely has an album title ever doubled so effectively as a perfect description of what’s inside. So begins one of the greatest rock records of the 21st century. Fireworks, drums that sound like bomb blasts, lightning bolts of electric guitar, and a rhetorical question: “Long lit up tonight and still drinking/Don’t we have anything to live for?”
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