Japandroids : 'Post-Nothing' Released: 7th September 2009 Label: Polyvinyl Records Don't call Japandroids minimal - says the CD case spiel. Is that a threat? It sounds like one. But much as I'd like to take the bait, I can't, rationally speaking the angsty two piece aren't minimal but neither are they as maximal as they'd clearly like to be. The third release from the Candadian duo shows a clear progression from their promising and hype stirring EPs. The production is neater, though odd lapses in the drum tone still crop up and jar badly. The wall-ly shoegaze sound remains though chord changes are more marked and crisp, yeilding a melodic edge and combinded with something joyfully niave and innocent in the big major chord melodies and lyrics, Post-Nothing leaves you feeling like a loved up 17-year-old stumbling home from your first girlfriend's house in the dead of night, through the gentle suburbs of middle class youth. They could be better musically, if they added a few more members, they could be larger, more sonically grandiose - and something in their songs suggests that that is what they dream of - stadiums stages full of instruments with odd tuning and impractical time signatures. It's a dream, that selfishly, I hope they never realize. The thing that makes the JPNDRDS good, really good, is that they sound like all your best friend's band when they were ace before they stopped swearing and started listening to Monks and Wagner too much and went all weird. 'It's raining in Vancouver/ but I don't give a fuck/ because I'm in love with you tonight' Big. Stupid. Brilliant. 7/10 Words: Oliver Jones
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Reply #1 on : Mon July 04, 2011, 04:07:54