It's been three long years since
Vancouver duo
Japandroids boomed and blasted us with Post-Nothing and said temporal void feels ever more endless still. However there's today news of a new record, expected June 4th on
Polyvinyl Record Co., that ought to alleviate the anxieties over their whereabouts and, after all that exhaustive touring, wellbeing. Entitled Celebration Rock, although the above artwork may intimate a worn down exhaustion when compared with that adorning the previous long-player The House That Heaven Built is as instantly urgent and triumphantly visceral as ever. Indeed
as Andrew Johnston expounds on Soundcloud, it sounds a little like The Hold Steady's Stuck Between Stations although only had Craig Finn duetted with packs of rabid canines and gutturally bayed his way through the thing...
Brian King and David Prowse play London's CAMP Basement May 22nd and
Barcelona's San Miguel Primavera Sound the following week (31st)...
