Trystan's Best #6: Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Released: June 8th, 2009

With nothing more than a guitar split between two amps and a drum set, Japandroids manage to fill your headphones with fuzzy, epic punk rock and your mind with equally epic feelings of nostalgia and euphoria. "Young Hearts Spark Fire" is a battle cry for every young person feeling the cynism of the uncertain times we live in now, because we all certainly used to dream and now worry about dying. "Wet Hair" and "Heart Sweats" are both builders, the former being about beautiful girls and adventuring to France, and the latter being about being in love with an imperfect girl. This album is full of alt-fuzz gems. It is perfect driving music and perfect wind-down music all at once. Perfect get-drunk music and perfect reflect-and-recollect music. It's perfect music, through and through.