Polyvinyl is pleased to announce the release of "Younger Us," the second single in Japandroids 7" series, which will be available July 20. The second single includes the A-side title track, "Younger Us," along with a B-side cover of X's "Sex And Dying In High Society." As previously reported, the entire series will yield five singles, each limited edition on clear vinyl and for sale in digital format. Each single will include an A-side featuring previously unreleased material from the POST-NOTHING sessions, and a cover B-side. Japandroids devised the 7" series as a way to give something back to their fans while the band is in the midst of heavy touring and unable to record a full album. Each two-song 7" will be recorded at the Hive in Vancouver, BC (where POST-NOTHING was recorded) during the brief periods of time the band is at home between tours.
2009 was a breakout year for Japandroids. Their debut full-length POST-NOTHING, was one of the best reviewed albums of the year, and is now appearing on tons of year-end lists including Village Voice "Pazz & Jop" (#33), Pitchfork (#15), SPIN (#16), Exclaim (#2) , Magnet (#14), NME (#39), Stereogum (#21), The Onion A.V Club (#25), Chicago Tribune (#9), Chicago Sun Times (#8), Pop Matters (#35),and Slant (#7).
"One of the year's most refreshing rock records: childlike, but never juvenile...It's a clean racket, with distortion that clouds the sound but not the melodies, which are abundant, taking cues from garage rock and pop-punk. Most Japandroids songs employ just a handful of lyrics, generally repeated, about the ephemerality of youth and love." [Live Review]- NY TIMES
"A million years ago, a label called SST briefly held a monopoly on everything awesome in indie rock-the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., BlackFlag, Hüsker Dü. And if the young Vancouver band called Japandroids had been around then, SST would have put them out, too." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"This is terminally catchy music played with punk's enthusiasm and velocity, and maybe it's the fact that there's only two dudes in this band that makes you feel like joining in to bash along." [Best New Music] - PITCHFORK
"On their fantastically vital debut, singer-guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse unleash fuzzed-out chordal riffs and rampaging fills as they rage against the postadolescent realization that nights spent searching for warm bodies and cold beer will, and probably should, end. Each song explodes, but it's "Young Hearts Spark Fire," where the duo shout, "We used to dream, now we worry about dying," that makes growing up sound like the terrifying triumph it is." [#16/Top 40 Albums] - SPIN
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