Summoning the spirit that great, unadulterated, raw rock & roll generates, is something I still seek to do. Please believe, that is not for a lack of trying. But the last rock and roll album that really jumped out of the speakers was Japandroids’ Celebration Rock. You can disagree with me, while touting whatever hipster rock-hybrid title you want, or pretend Radiohead’s still putting out great albums despite not having made one in nearly a decade since 2007’s In Rainbows. Point blank, rock and roll’s been dead, for more than a minute. It’s both a testament to this band’s strengths, and a lament to long-gone days of rock & roll as a vibrant musical art form with contemporary cultural capital. While music criticism is by nature subjective, that’s a lot closer to fact than any “alternative fact” typically trotted out during this “facts don’t matter” era. Although they technically debuted in mid-2009, Japandroids remain the only rock band of record to arrive in this decade.
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