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100
The two-piece capture an intensity on record that the best live acts many times their number can only imitate on stage. Their half-yelled sloganeering and joyous woah-oah-oah choruses are positively life-affirming, lighting up the classic rock power chords that punctuate at least the first half of the album with the final fireworks of youth.
6y
100
It’s a record about love and life in the most bombastic terms that isn’t afraid to be melodramatic or fun, and it does it without a single wink or sneer. And God knows we need that right about now.
9y
100
Celebration Rock finds that some of the best moments in life can come from uncertainty.
14y
91
Shred through all the raw power and abandon of Celebration Rock and you’ll taste the rarified nectar of the rock gods — stage sweat and bloody knuckles.
11y
90
Celebration Rock is cigarette butts, spilt beer, hoarse voices and the smell of stale dope smoke. This is REAL party rock, and like the best nights out, it leaves you sweaty and exhausted and ready to do it all over again. Unlike the best nights out, however, you don’t have to wait another day to do so.
13y
90
Celebration Rock is a tipsy toast to the very best moments in life.
11y
90
Japandroids never intended to become the world’s best rock band, but with this album they might have just shoved compatriots Fucked Up off of that particular throne.
11y
90
Where Post-Nothing melts into a hazy dream, Celebration Rock does exactly what it claims to do—it burns on and on like the best sort of party.
14y
90
"Continuous Thunder" is a sensitive parting shot, and cements Celebration Rock's emotional depth.
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3y
88
The first thing you take from Celebration Rock is just how much they've improved in terms of capturing pure sound, everything hitting louder and clearer than before.
14y
87
Celebration Rock is in perpetual motion, driven by a visceral sense of urgency that most modern guitar music is so sorely lacking.
14y
85
Japandroids have already shown everyone who matters that they are on to some next level shit and with Celebration Rock, a more polished, fully formed affair, it’s certain that everyone else will be sold as soon as they get it in their tiny little ear holes.
9y
85
It works, but it doesn't make sense, and can't be explained. It can only be heard.
13y
85
Ultimately, Celebration Rock is a glorious record that presents a vision of an unknowable future but is determined to revel in the unexpected and the limitless.
6y
80
Celebration Rock is near-perfect in what it sets out to do: making people happy, bringing them together.
11y
80
Celebration Rock is raw frenzy, tender love, and foolish cacophony.
8y
80
Japandroids aren't raging against the machine, but the dying of the light.
6y
80
Others have tacked on new chapters to the blue-collar rock handbook in recent times, but few have done so with the beautiful, honest craft displayed here.
5y
80
Japandroids sing about lost youth and sex and drinking atop hammer-of-the-geeks distortion swirls and holler-along refrains a gorilla could pump some paw to.
11y
80
Bookended by snippets of crackling fireworks, the aptly-titled 'Celebration Rock' is big on anthems, euphoria and fistpumping rock'n'roll thrills.
11y
80
With Celebration Rock, King and Prowse have constructed an album that's near impossible to dislike.
14y
80
Celebration Rock isn’t a final stand, it’s a push forward.
14y
80
Celebration Rock is instead a triumph, showing that those with least to lose often have most to gain.
14y
80
“We all want to know what nobody knows.” –Japandroids, “The Night of Wine and Roses”
13y
80
The sheer energy pouring from this record is breathtaking: not until the very final song (‘Continuous Thunder’) does Celebration Rock’s sense of acceleration cease.
14y
70
Celebration Rock’s high-tempo riff rock concerns itself with energy and embraces our serendipitous run-ins with those good times worth remembering.
14y
70
Celebration Rock could arguably lack the powerful impact of the first record. Still, it's a hell of lot of fun.
14y
60
Aptly, the title is about as subtle and nuanced as the record itself: a short, samey burst of enjoyable, yet disposable, garage rock.
13y
60
Each song spills over with a breathless, unhinged vigour that impresses ... But taken all together, the band's refusal ever to let up on volume, bombast, group-shouted vocals, fast-strummed chords or smashing drums makes Celebration Rock an exhausting sonic assault in need of variety.
9y
60
The second album from noise-punk duo Japandroids works every straining sinew to convince you what enormous fun you must be having in its company, but still winds up striking a curiously sour note.
13y
60
Perhaps this is a group better experienced firsthand in a sweaty club, with crowds chanting the call-and-response choruses back at them – but, occasionally on Celebration Rock, you can almost feel you’re there.
5y
60
Celebration Rock delivers more of the same good-time guitar-pop anthems about girls and night on the tiles, delivered at breakneck velocity and near-deafening volume.
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3y
50
On the band's sophomore LP, Japandroids do a great job of eliciting very righteous, life-defining emotions, but don't really surround them with anything that's terribly engaging, musically.
8y
One of the most fun and anthemic rock records of 2012. I was pleasantly surprised that they were able put out another album that matched the quality of their debut.
Japandroids most iconic album, gives some catchy, well played garage fused indie rock for an easy listen record which may not be topping or reaching new heights within the genre but offers a fun listen which in of itself makes it a great record, with never a dull moment, the record never feeling over stretched, and the instrumentals and vocals all catchy, upbeat and engaging, Celeb Ration Rock is a great 2010's indie rock adventure.
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The Nights of Wine and Roses 8.5/10.
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Japandroids shows us just how far pure heart can go in 2012. There is definitely a few "WE WILL NEVER DIE" boom stomp clap moments, but this was the cultural zeitgeist of the era, and I think it actually comes from some of the more Jersey rock Bruce Springsteen inspired song structures. This means longer run times and bringing back choruses for a 3rd time for big crowd pleasing moments. It's just the two of them up there, and they do such a killer job of bringing a youthful and ... read more
super enjoyable and catchy indie rock album, so many bangers to bop your head to on this thing, really love the track The House That Heaven Built, the motivating lyrics on it such as "and if they try to slow you down, tell them all to go to hell" those lines right there really touched me and honestly is motivating me to start doing hobbies again, there are so many anthems on this thing and i would recommend to anyone to listen to this, on the track evils sway the hook on it is so ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | The Nights of Wine and Roses 4:02 | 83 |
| 2 | Fire's Highway 4:43 | 86 |
| 3 | Evil's Sway 4:26 | 86 |
| 4 | For the Love of Ivy 4:13 | 78 |
| 5 | Adrenaline Nightshift 4:26 | 84 |
| 6 | Younger Us 3:32 | 88 |
| 7 | The House That Heaven Built 4:49 | 89 |
| 8 | Continuous Thunder 4:59 | 83 |
Total Length: 35 minutes
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