I feel like I have been falling behind on recent music releases. It's a terrible shame for an owner and operator of a music-centric blog. You know that thing you do with your friend who also happens to be into music where you go back and forth naming bands and new albums? " Oh have you listened to the new this yet?!" " No, but I hear it's pretty good" " Oh yeah it's amazing. You have to listen to it!"..." Oh there's this remix of that MGMT song that is fantastic" " Oh I think my friend sent me that but I haven't gotten around to listening to it yet". That happened to me yesterday and it was quite embarrassing because I kept having to say I hadn't heard any of it yet.
With that said I am happy to post a new band I am really getting into at the moment. They are called
"Japandroids". I read the review of their new album "Post-Nothing" on Pitchfork the other day and had to take a listen. The reviewer mentioned the record being reminiscent of a "1990's
Vagrant records band" which instantly had me interested. I had recently been longing for the good ol' innocent days of sloppy, erratic , emotive instrumentation and singing ala my high school emo phase. Back in high school Vagrant made some of my favorite albums and produced one of my favorite bands of all-time
"The Get Up Kids". This record definitely taps into that old school
Get Up Kids vein for me.
Japandroids aim more mature and less on the depressed staring at my shoes tip. The music is wonderfully fuzzy and full of nice punchy hooks. It's a good way to kick off your summer!
