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Preview: Japandroids, Japan, 2013

October 19, 2013 2013 , Brian King , C.B.Liddell , Canada , David Prowse , indie rock , Japandroids Edit With a name like Japandroids, it must only have been a matter of time for the up-and-coming indie rockers to gravitate towards these shores. After a fleeting appearance at last year's Fuji Rock, they are back with a date at Shibuya WWW.

2012 was a very successful year for the Canadian duo. Their sophomore album Celebration Rock landed them on a lot of year-end best-of lists, including those of Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. The term "indie rock" may evoke the image of someone gazing morosely at a shoe — and the band's name has a hint of the reclusive otaku about it — but live on stage Brian King (guitar, vocals) and David Prowse (drums, vocals) cook up a punkish-garagey-hipster maelstrom of guitar-shredding, drum-clattering insanity that sounds like a much bigger army. Small, powerful, and economical: Now wherever did they get an idea like that from?

9th February, 2013


 Reviewed by C.B.Liddell on October 19, 2013 Rating: 5

