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Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol review – Canadian duo’s bittersweet breakup record
Brian King and David Prowse’s guitar-drums combo enjoys one last hurrah with tracks ranging from bluesy epics to rock romcom
With Springsteen-influenced storytelling fuelled by some of the punk intensity from their breakthrough record, 2012’s Celebration Rock, Fate & Alcohol is a classic romance – breathless, hedonistic and wistful – until it’s not. The artwork for Fate & AlcoholKing falls in love at a single glance on rock romcom Eye Contact High, made cinematic by Prowse’s rattling, urgent drumming and soaring gang vocals. Similarly, One Without the Other reveals the rush and glamour of touring to be inextricable from King’s “two bottles of anything” approach to the road: he recently told Stereogum that he is now a year sober and expecting his first child.
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