Japandroids

Get a limited splatter vinyl repress of Japandroids' 'Celebration Rock' now!

Japandroids‘ classic album Celebration Rock turned 10 in 2022, and we’re continuing to celebrate the anniversary with a new, exclusive vinyl variant. It comes on half white/half clear with black splatter, and it’s limited to just 300 copies. Order yours now while they last!

Here’s what we said about Celebration Rock when we named it one of the best albums of the 2010s:

There might not be a more accurately titled album on this list than Celebration Rock. It’s exactly what this album does; it celebrates the pure thrill that you can only get from rock and roll. Every song (except the initially underrated album closer “Continuous Thunder”) is turned up to 11 and played like the two members of Japandroids are challenging each other to play just a little bit faster. They’ve said they included all the “whoa”s because they were trying to think of how fans would sing along at shows. They stuffed the album with fist-raising heartland punk anthems that sounded like The Replacements with a literal fire lit under their asses, and they included such classic rock-isms as “Hearts from hell collide on fire’s highway tonight” and “hitchhiked to hell and back, riding the wind / waiting for a generation’s bonfire to begin.” These eight songs sound like all the most fun parts of rock, stripped of all the pretension. It felt like a breath of fresh air in 2012, when stuff like art rock and psych-pop was still dominating indie rock, and — along with Cloud Nothings’ Attack on Memory — it helped open the doors for modern indie rock to embrace music that actually rocked. It holds up after all these years not just because it rocks so hard, though, but because underneath all the ruckus, Japandroids conveyed enough raw emotion to shake the hearts of anyone who listened to the core. “It’s a lifeless life, with no fixed address to give / but you’re not mine to die for anymore, so I must live,” Brian King shouts as the drums drop out of penultimate song “The House That Heaven Built,” and it’s among the most life-affirming sendoffs put to tape this decade.

Pick up our new variant HERE and stream the album below.