Post-nothing.

As good friends should, my pal Jason hipped me to the new Japandroids disc, now entering the Pantheon of greatest Before and After Band names, right there with Brian Jonestown Massacre! I promise to make this review "a shortie" to honor largeheartedboy. You might almost say it will be practically a post-nothing. Which puts me in mind of my favorite puncatuation joke (you didn't know there was such a thing, did you?):

This was an airy slim boy in shrimp-colored tights that made him look like a forked carrot, the rest of his gear was blue silk and dainty laces and ruffles; and he had long yellow curls, and wore a plumed pink satin cap tilted complacently over his ear. By his look, he was good-natured; by his gait, he was satisfied with himself. He was pretty enough to frame. He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page.

"Go 'long," I said; "you ain't more than a paragraph."

Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Chapter 2

With 24 years in in non-commercial radio, of course, I'm gonna play "Sounds A Lot Like" for shorthand and indie snobbery's sake. A 2-piece Japandroids are immediately reminiscent of Mecca Normal and Spinanes. Their sound fits in the nook (or is it a crannie?) between Quasi and The Thermals. In other words, it RAWKS! And yes all those references were purposely Left and North.

Key Tracks:
Young Hearts Spark Fire
Crazy / Forever
I Quit Girls
and The "Binary Code" song, Heart Sweets "X O X O X"