Excitement is brewing because Japandroids
are set to release their second studio album
Celebration Rock in June. It's been five years since they began recording
material for the critically acclaimed 2009 noise rock piece Post-Nothing, but
they've kept every inch of originality and rawness which beacons down on the
listener with such power. This momentous track is called The House That Heaven Built, and I'm not surprised. This
track is thunderous, ecliptic and incredibly epic giving me visions of a dark
rock montage somewhere in Brooklyn. Japandroids are of course Canadian, and
focus on a mix between garage punk and noise punk.
It's like all great punk rock tracks. It has energy and a
sense of urgency that the track 5's and 6's and 7's just don't have (if you
catch my drift). This is single material and what a single this is. The
drumming picks up momentum as the track progresses with the heavily distorted
vocal jeers. The chords are heavy and have a standard sound, separating the
verse from the chorus very nicely. The vocal refrains are magnificent, with
vocalist/guitar Brian King screaming out the final clear shriek, "It’s a
lifeless life, with no fixed address to give, but you’re not mine to die for
anymore so I must live." The drums increase vigorously, as does the guitars
which have a second coming sound this time round, with the drumming still
building as the lyrics "And if they try to slow you down, tell em all to go to hell", booming through as clear as distortion allows
it to be.
~Eddie
