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But the themes here are a bit more expansive: Released four and a half years after Celebration Rock, these eight songs are clearly the product of reflection, upheaval and the soul-searching that so often comes with travel and time off. Japandroids' new album is titled Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, so those themes remain in full effect from the opening drum fills of the title track. Listen to the Vancouver duo's 2012 masterpiece Celebration Rock - one of the most appropriately titled albums of all time - and you'll hear song after song fixated on a bone-deep intention to feel more, stay raw, let rip, and 'yell like hell to the heavens.' A natural resistance to aging and decline provides plenty of subtext, but really, the band specializes in anthems about the power and the glory of simply feeling alive.

But for Brian King and David Prowse of Japandroids, that central pursuit is often majesty itself. Rock 'n' roll so often boils down to simple pursuits: the search for love, sex, escape, revenge, satisfaction, or some signifier of freedom and home. Courtesy of the artist Japandroids: Near To The Wild Heart Of Life

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