Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol

“For all the descriptive language they use, descriptive language can’t really adequately evoke how much beautiful, blown-out noise is produced by these two people, how much better they are at this than dozens of bands who’ve tried. ” – SPIN

“Even when Japandroids expand musically, they always deliver something that is distinctly of themselves.” – GQ

“From day one, they’ve wanted to be the house band for the most pivotal moments of your life, bashing out the sort of garage-spawned, arena-sized pop-punk anthems that instinctively make you want to wrap your arms around your best mate and yell like hell to the heavens.” – Pitchfork

“Japandroids has evolved from a firehose of guitar feedback and positive vibes to a more erudite and purposeful — but still endearingly slapdash — pair of rock torchbearers.” – The New York Times

“A classic Japandroids romp that sees singer-guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse doing what they do best: making fiery, rugged heartland punk that handles matters of the heart and the body … A single, simmering chord heralds their return and builds up to walloping drum fills and an anthemic chorus.” – Paste

“Chicago” finds Japandroids doing what they have always done best: Enormous, relentlessly striving guitars flying above a battlefield of drums, lyrics capturing the grimy beauty of living fully, even if the cost is some self-destruction.” – Rolling Stone 

“The song is a fist-in-the-air, nostalgic barnburner, which is to say, it’s a Japandroids song.” – Uproxx on “D&T”

On October 18, eighteen years of the Vancouver duo Japandroids will come to a close with the release of their fourth and final album ‘Fate & Alcohol’. David Prowse and Brian King met in the early 2000s as students at The University of Victoria in British Columbia. They quickly bonded over a shared love of Wolf Parade and Constantines, bands whose earnest, heart-on-sleeve indie rock would become a blueprint for Japandroids, which they’d eventually form in 2006 as the two found themselves both living and working in Vancouver. “From the moment we started playing,” Prowse says, “there was something that felt special to both of us.” (Continue reading full bio on DISCO)