From seemingly nowhere in June of 2012, an up-and-coming band from Vancouver called Japandroids dropped Celebration Rock, the summer album to end all summer albums. With its shout-along choruses, fuck-it-all attitude, and unabashed guitar worship, the record was instantly gratifying, and only sounded better as the Saturdays of July and August offered the chances to blast its eight songs out of car windows on sunny drives to the beach.
The album brought the Canadian duo a flood of new fans, the band became the stuff of rock writer wet dreams, and their meteoric success proved that there was still some bite left in indie rock after an abysmal few years of Garden Statesoundtrack variety mush rock. Celebration Rock came to define the band's sound, and its title became the perfect descriptor of its creators' ethos. And although Japandroids had only one other album under their belt, 2009's Post-Nothing, the consensus among their fans was that Celebration Rock might just forever be their unmatchable crowning achievement.
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