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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tonight Tonight in Music: Japandroids, Bass Drum of Death
Posted by Dan Oberbruner on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Japandroids, Bass Drum of Death
(Sunset) As duos go, Vancouver, British Columbia's Japandroids rank up there with No Age, thanks to inventive, brimming, anthemic post-punk, with choruses like "We used to dream/Now we worry about dying." As duos go, Bass Drum of Death's basal contemporary garage rock isn't all that adventurous, but it's stripped-down and pretty arresting on record, though the songwriting leaves something to be desired. Internet footage suggests that the boys aren't able to translate the immediacy of the album to a live show so well, but I've been wrong approximately one million times before. GRANT BRISSEY
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