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Japandroids announce new album 'Celebration Rock', out this June

by Tyler Munro

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything new from Vancouver’s Japandroids, but the noisy duo announced today that Celebration Rock, their newly unveiled follow-up to 2009’s breakout Post-Nothing would be out this coming June.

Details are sparse, but in an interview with Pitchfork the band says they wrote the album around the energy of their fan-favourite live shows.

“On a lot of this new record, we actually tried to simulate the sound of what we thought the crowd would do during the songs,” says guitarist Brian King. “[Drummer David Prowse] and I were in the studio just screaming out as if we were in the audience at our own show.”

Like Post-Nothing, the 8-song follow-up Celebration Rock was recorded in Vancouver with engineer Jesse Gander.

“We’re a pretty difficult band to record because we have some ground rules: no double-tracking guitars and no overdubs unless they’re absolutely necessary. It’s basically just one drum take, one guitar take, and then us singing over top,” says King. “There’s nothing fancy about it. Our band sounds best when we essentially capture this live energy, and there are no studio tricks to get to that level of passion when you’re actually playing the song.”

While there’s no concrete release date for the album just yet, look for it this June when it hits stores via Polyvinyl Records.