Japandroids—the wide-eyed, heart-sleeved, gloriously unreconstructed rockers whose last album (way back in 2012) bore the self-explanatory title Celebration Rock—probably aren’t the first band you’d expect to borrow an album title from James Joyce (by way of Clarice Lispector, no less). It fits, though. In comparison to the impetuous lo-fi id-eruptions of their younger days, Near … Continue reading Essential New Music: Japandroids’ “Near To The Wild Heart Of Life”