![]() The band basically hit the nervous system like a narcotic stimulant: you’ll chat bullshit, become unaware of anyone else around you but your mates and, undoubtedly, have a great time. The band romanticize youth, travel and drunkenness in such an appealing way that you can easily forget that there are few things more obnoxious than drunken tourists. A desire to leave your hometown and experience life as something greater than what it is now to “succumb to the city… and go far away” (as they put it on the album’s first track). At the heart of their outlook on life is a burning desire (words like ‘burning’ and ‘desire’ are very common in their vocabulary). Accordingly, there is no better band to soundtrack these activities. But the most important are their love of drinking, road-tripping, bromance and sex. The two share so many common themes that I could happily compare them for hours. They ‘re one of the very few guitar bands of the last ten years that I actually love – maybe it’s their unabashed Kerouac-ing that gets me so. Vancouver’s rock band Japandroids have always reminded me of Jack Kerouac‘s seminal “On The Road.” Like Kerouac‘s work they have a wonderful joie-de-vivre, a complete lust-for-life that is utterly infectious. ![]()
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