No Singles

Post-Nothing pumped fists, swilled beers, and ogled girls with the unbridled enthusiasm of youth, but on it Japandroids also viewed the future as something daunting. Maybe Brian King and David Prowse still worry about dying and being away from home, but now they're facing something more mundane and knowable: following a record that catapulted them to indie fame. This year, the duo will continue to release 7" singles culled from material written during the Post-Nothing sessions in addition to No Singles, a collection of two out-of-print EPs (2007's All Lies and 2008's Lullaby Death Jams). And while it's a fun peek into Japandroids' developmental process, don't expect anything more from this release.

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Canadian noise-rock duo Japandroids may be one of a growing band of two-piece outfits that sound like a train colliding with an oil tanker - see also No Age, Wavves and of course scene grandaddies Lightning Bolt - yet as last year's excellent debut long player Post-Nothing demonstrated, they're also partial to writing the odd tune to go with it. Listening back to their back catalogue, that wasn't always the case, as this revisit through those embryonic days will testify.

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Unfortunately, all of the above attributes are in short supply on No Singles, a reissue/compilation of the two EPs that the band released prior to Post-Nothing: All Lies and Lullaby Death Jams. The band shows plenty of promise on these teeth-cutting EPs, but there’s nothing present that would lead listeners to believe the Japandroids were capable of the heights reached on Post-Nothing. Most of all, the band’s pile-driving hooks just aren’t there.

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