![]() ![]() King's not the sort of lyricist who directly names his own muses. While they obviously haven't abandoned that kind of song, Near to the Wild Heart of Life's mood proceeds down a road more tender than the band has most famously traversed. Near to the Wild Heart of Life-out today-picks up with a beaming salvo that, in the alternate reality where Japandroids wrote it years earlier, fits quite snugly amongst the rest of Celebration Rock. But I've never really read or heard anyone interpret a lot of those songs the way I did in my head when I wrote them." They feel the way that I suppose they think we felt when we wrote those songs, or feel a kinship with those ideas. "And for a lot of people out there, that really speaks to them. "I think when Celebration Rock came out, we got painted as that kind of band who wrote that kind of song and evoked that kind of feeling," King says. Near to the Wild Heart of Life's mood proceeds down a road more tender than Japandroids have most famously traversed. It's as if there's a metronome in his brain that's struggling to power down. Indulging my curiosity, the singer-guitarist habitually pounds the hotel restaurant table-off of which drummer Prowse munches a plate of tacos-with a casualness implying unconscious reflex rather than emphasis on whatever point he's making at a given moment. ![]() "There was a time when the band was given this label that had a lot to do with nostalgia that we never intended," King clarifies amid a day navigating media obligations at Chinatown's Wyndham Garden. As for Japandroids themselves, they're not in the business of living up to other people's ghosts. Ditto for Celebration's "Younger Us," and a fistful of others. Instead, they've been pigeonholed into memories, and not necessarily their own.įans should be forgiven, if not commended, if they rely on the ramshackle exuberance of "Young Hearts Spark Fire" from Post-Nothing to recall carefree-ish, optimistic-ish bygone sections of their lifetime. Since a surprise audience coalesced around 2009's Post-Nothing and their follow-up Celebration Rock mushroomed into the quintessential indie rock record of 2012, Brian King and David Prowse haven't been boxed into a style or one or two emblematic tracks. ![]()
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