![]() It felt real, and that’s what made it special. Celebration Rock was by no means a messy album, but it featured reverberations that were left to sound natural, instead of cleaned up in a post edit, vocal tracks where singer Brian King sounded like he might burst. The problem is that with every well rounded, catchy and clear track on NTTWHOL, the essence of the Japandroids sound becomes a little more lost. With a revitalised fan base emerging from their slumber alongside Japandroids, Near to the Wild Heart of Life delivers an album that many fans probably believed they wanted to hear, a more refined, more produced Japandroids sound. Now in 2017 there’s a new Japandroids album, titled Near to the Wild Heart of Life (NTTWHOL – because that’s one hell of a title) and Japandroids now have the grand task of matching, and trying to exceed Celebration Rock, what many view as their career highlight. There were no public appearances in the next three years, but as the band themselves rested, Celebration Rock continued to circulate. Yet, when it seemed Japandroids were destined to break onto every magazine cover and launch a headline tour the likes of which punk bands across the world would right to envy, they announced their farewell to their fans through a message conveyed through their Facebook. Naturally with Celebration Rock being a brilliant album, this earned the band a rapid expansion of their fan base they went from first supports to headliners about as quickly as any band could hope for. ![]() After releasing their second album Celebration Rock the band toured relentlessly – we’re talking 500 shows between 20 across 44 countries. ![]()
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