![]() ![]() Or at least practical-here, “Younger Us” truly sounds like it’s being sung by someone older and wiser “Fire’s Highway” steps off the gas to avoid the daredevil melodic bridge jump of its chorus, staying safely in the carpool lane. The live album reveals a Japandroids that became reliable, downright professional. Their reputation as hard-drinkin’, hard-rockin’, hard-lovin’ punk vagabonds ran up against their reality as a couple of studio perfectionists, and Massey Fucking Hall lays this dissonance bare. ![]() Japandroids were capable of live transcendence, but only if they weren’t completely trashed by the time they got on stage or at a point during their marathon tours where King has inevitably blown out his voice. ![]() Even Japandroids’ most evangelical fans know that King and David Prowse can’t really pull of most of their vocals live those “whoa”s and “yeah”s don’t quite hit the same when it’s really two guys doing it, as opposed to two guys overdubbed to sound like 250. ![]()
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