Japandroids - Celebration Rock

The Line of Best Fit“This is REAL party rock...” It’s loud, it’s fast, and it’s pretty damn relentless. The life-or-death madlibs that make up its song titles could have been easy to predict – ‘Continuous Thunder’, ‘Adrenaline Nightshift’ – but the increased sense of perspective a

NME“Strikes a curiously sour note...” The second album from noise-punk duo Japandroids (you have no idea how much we wanted to type No Age then) works every straining sinew to convince you what enormous fun you must be having in its company...

The Quietus“Japandroids speak to the excess and strife of sundrenched youth...” There is a pop sensibility that makes the album's emotional thrust irresistible...

Spin“This is not the sound of settling...” Though the songwriting is on the whole more consistent, there's not a lot of fixing what remains defiantly unbroken on Celebration Rock...

BBC“Inaction almost killed Japandroids...” Once subdued and struggling, Japandroids are now hurtling at the only speed they were ever likely to be comfortable with...

Drowned In Sound“Celebration Rock sounds oddly more like a debut than Post-Nothing...” Celebration Rock feels less troubled and more emotionally distant than Post-Nothing, but even so you’d hesitate to say King sounds like a man in love with life...

The A.V. Club“Celebration Rock starts strong and stays there...” The question of King and Prowse making it to a third album, much less “to the grave,” remains open even now, but Celebration Rock finds that some of the best moments in life can come from uncertainty...

MusicOMH“Celebration Rock is pounding, lithe and youthful...” Phrases are sometimes indistinct, but the shift toward a yearning, almost Bruce Springsteen-esque narrative is unmistakable...

Pitchfork“This is a celebration of being alive...” The first thing you take from Celebration Rock is just how much they've improved in terms of capturing pure sound, everything hitting louder and clearer than before...