Basically two guys trying to sound like a five-piece rock band, Japandroids is one guitar, one drum set and two vocalisers spewing out some of the most gut-busting post-teenage angst possible.
They call it garage rock, but you can call it what you like, as long as it's not minimal. Japandroids are maximal.
A big riffing group from Vancouver, Japandroids make this sort of half garage rock, half At The Drive In post hardcore racket that is so triumphant, punching the air like some coked-up maniac is the only...