So this is it, then; after 18 years, four albums, hundreds of gigs, tens of thousands of miles and enough booze to drown an army, David Prowse and Brian King have called time on Japandroids as an endeavor.
Having created momentum following the release of their 2009 debut Post-Nothing, the limitations to the formula – a likeable mix of high energy punk rock with a small ‘p’ – inevitably began to emerge, but Fate and Alcohol is a neat enough summation of why they always seemed to be third on the bill of some festival, somewhere.
Anyone fearing radical sonic departures (The odds were not short against it) will be relieved to erm..drink in the likes of D&T, Chicago and the classic ‘droids of All Bets Are Off. It’s left however to Positively 34th Street to really leave us wanting more, a tale of bar stool romance which eventually makes itself into something different. Fate and Alcohol is a shot and a brew of Japandroids; last call it is.
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