Celebration Rock

aoty

allmusic

consequence

The highly anticipated followup to Post-Nothing burns on and on like the best sort of party

fantano

On the band's sophomore LP, Japandroids do a great job of eliciting very righteous, life-defining emotions, but don't really surround them with anything that's terribly engaging, musically.

rollingstone

Imagine a different Eighties: The Replacements made Born in the USA, Hüsker Dü were Hulk Hogan's entrance music, and indie rock was the keggercrushing choice of Top Gun America. On their second LP, Vancouver drums-guitar duo Japandroids sing about lost youth and sex and drinking atop hammer-of-the-geeks distortion swirls and holler-along refrains a gorilla could […]

pitchfork

The Vancouver's 2009 debut Post-Nothing was an emotional blast and also a sonic blur; the follow-up finds everything hitting louder and clearer than before, along with making a huge leap in songwriting technique.