![]() ![]() The electronic-spiked I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner) and Arc of Bar are both claustrophobic and widescreen, and not unlike a pumped-up Placebo. North East South West, meanwhile, is a Canadian punk take on patriotic country music, with a chorus that sounds like they’ve got a battalion behind them. The title track has rousing get-in-a-moshpit-and-hug-your-mates choruses but it’s also pleasantly grown-up: emo-rock for those who still wear plaid shirts and skate shoes but who also now brew their own craft ale. The duo have nailed the art of the crunching, life-affirming crescendo. Previous records had a lo-fi garage edginess to them – skittish drums, lyrical yelps, cavalcades of crunch – but Near to the Wild Heart of Life, their third album, is so luxuriously gnarled it roars out of the speakers like the Revenant bear. Few others do gorgeous distortion like Vancouver’s Japandroids. ![]()
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