(Indie Rock) Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life - 2017, MP3, 320 kbps

JAPANDROIDS is a two-piece band from Vancouver, BC., which began in 2006 and consists of Brian King and David Prowse. JAPANDROIDS are one guitar, one set of drums, and two vocalizers. JAPANDROIDS are maximal in their delivery; a two- piece band sounding like a five-piece band. With the release of their second album, Celebration Rock in 2012 the band embarked on what seemed like an endless world tour, performing over 200 shows in over 40 countries, and played their final show in support of Celebration Rock in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2013. They would not perform live again for three years. Their third album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, was written clandestinely throughout 2014 and 2015 in Vancouver, Toronto, New Orleans, and Mexico City. It was (mostly) recorded at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC (Fall of 2015), with one song, “True Love And A Free Life Of Free Will”, recorded at Golden Ratio in Montreal, QC (February, 2015). The title, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, comes from a passage in the novel A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce: “He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.” Like their prior albums Post-Nothing and Celebration Rock, the album is 8 songs. This is because 8 songs is the standard template for a great rock n roll album. Like Post-Nothing and Celebration Rock, the album was sequenced specifically for the LP. On Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, side A (songs 1-4) and side B (songs 5-7) each follow their own loose narrative. Taken together as one, they form an even looser narrative, with the final song on side B (song 8) acting as an epilogue. If Celebration Rock was the culmination of something, then Near To The Wild Heart Of Life can be considered the beginning of something else.

1. Sia - This Is Acting (Pop, Indie, Chillout)
2. Walking on Cars - Everything This Way (Indie Rock / Alternative)
3. White Lies - Friends (Indie Rock / Post Punk)
4. Mesh - Looking Skyward (Synthpop)
5. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis (Alternative Rock)
6. Kensington - Control (Indie Rock / Christian)
7. Coasts - Coasts (Indie Pop/Electronic)
8. The Goo Goo Dolls - Boxes (Alternative Rock)
9. The Temper Trap - Thick as Thieves (Indie Rock / Indie Pop)
10. Marble Sounds - Tautou (Indie- Rock/Pop)
11. Vega - Who We Are (Melodic Rock / AOR)
12. The Moth & The Flame - Young And Unafraid (Indie Pop / Electronic)
13. All Tvvins - IIVV (Indie Pop / Electronic)
14. Autoheart - I Can Build A Fire (Indie Pop / Electronic)
15. tAKiDA - A Perfect World (Alt.Rock / Modern Rock / Pop Rock)
16. Kings Of Leon - Walls (Alternative Rock / Indie Rock)
17. Sunset Sons - Very Rarely Say Die (Alternative Rock / Indie Rock)
18. Stars Go Dim - Stars Go Dim (Christian Rock)
19. The Hunna - 100 (Indie Rock / Alternative Rock)
20. Palace - So Long Forever (Indie Rock)
21. Frightened Rabbit - Painting Of A Panic Attack (Indie Rock)
22. Electro Spectre - Beautiful Lies (Synth Pop)
23. Holy Holy - When the Storms Would Come (Indie Rock)
24. 1000 Gram - Dances (Indie Rock)
25. James - Girl At The End Of The World (Indie Rock / Britpop)
26. Anti Anti - Conundrum (Modern / Electronic Rock)
27. FARRO - Walkways (Pop-Rock)
28. Bon Jovi - This House Is Not For Sale (Hard Rock)
29. Funeral Suits - Islands Apart (Indie-Rock)
30. Roses - Camera Trouble (Dream Pop / Synthpop)
31. American Authors - What We Live For (Indie-Pop / Folk)
32. Citizens & Saints - A Mirror Dimly (Christian Rock / Praise & Worship)
33. Newsboys - Love Riot (Christian Rock / Pop Rock)
34. De-Vision - 13 (Synthpop)
35. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (Electronic, Indie Rock)
36. Seafret - Tell Me It's Real ( Indie Rock / Folk)
37. Treat - Ghost Of Graceland (Melodic Hard Rock)
38. Poets of the Fall – Clearview (Pop Rock)
39. Twin Atlantic - GLA (Alternative Rock)
40. Tellef Raabe - Idiographic (Indie Pop / Rock)
41. The Racer - Giant (Indie Rock)
42. St. Lucia - Matter (Dance,Electronic, Indie-Pop)
43. WANTed - Fringe (Synthpop)
44. Wolfmother - Victorious (Hard Rock)
45. Thrice - To Be Everything Is To Be Nowhere (Post Hardcore/Alternative Rock)
46. The Griswolds - High Times For Low Lives (Indie Pop/ Electronic / Surf)
47. Repeater - Repeater (Indie Rock)
48. Sadman - The Big Cut (Synth-pop)
49. Hallelujah The Hills - A Band Is Something To Figure Out (Indie Rock / Lo.Fi)
50. Jake Bugg - On My One (Indie/Pop-Rock/Folk)
51. Mi-Sex - Not From Here (Indie Pop / New Wave)
52. CRX - New Skin (Indie Rock, Powerpop)
53. Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow (Indie Rock / Electronic)
54. Rоxеttе - Gооd Kаrma (Pop Rock, Soft Rock)
55. Causes - Under Bridges That You Built for Me (Pop-Rock)
56. Travis - Everything At Once (Britpop, Indie-Pop)
57. Bastille - Wild World (Indie Pop)
58. Blue October - Home (Alternative Rock)
59. The Joy Formidable - Hitch (Indie Rock/Female vocal)
60. Green Day - Revolution Radio (Alternative/ Punk Rock)
61. Bosse - Engtanz (Pop Rock | Indie-pop)
62. Måns Zelmerlöw (Mans Zelmerlow) - Chameleon (Pop-Rock)
63. Gypsy And The Cat - Virtual Islands (Indie-Pop)
64. The Coral - Distance Inbetween (Indie-Rock/Folk/Psychedelic)
65. Lewis Del Mar - Lewis Del Mar (Indie Pop)
66. We Are Scientists - Helter Seltzer (Indie Rock)
67. Nek - Unici (Pop, Rock, Soft Rock)
68. Jon Bryant - Twenty Something (Indie-Pop/Folk)
69. Nada Surf - Peaceful Ghosts (Indie Rock / Pop-Rock)
70. Bear's Den - Red Earth And Pouring Rain (Indie-Rock / Folk)
71. Into Lala - Into Lala (Indie Pop, Indie Dance, Nu Disco)
72. The Virginmarys - Divides (Hard Rock)
73. Doombird - Past Lives (Indie-Pop/Electronic)
74. Fufanu - Few More Days To Go (Indie Rock)
75. ABAY - Everything's Amazing And Nobody Is Happy (Indie Rock)
76. Dear Rouge - Black To Gold (Indie Rock)
77. Billy Talent - Afraid of Heights (Punk Rock | Alternative Rock)
78. David Bazan - Blanco (Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic, Folk)
79. Anchor & Braille - Songs For The Late Night Drive Home (Indie-Pop)
80. ANOHNI - Hopelessness (Indie-Pop/Electronic)
81. King Charles - Gamble For A Rose (Indie Rock/Reggue/Folk)
82. Andrew Bird - Are You Serious (Folk-Rock, Indie-Rock, Indie-Folk, Baroque pop)
83. White Denim - Stiff (Indie Rock / Garage Rock)
84. Battleme - Habitual Love Songs (Indie Rock)
85. Parralox - Aeronaut (Electropop)
86. Matt Wertz - Gun Shy (Pop-Rock)
87. Olimpia - Chemistry Of Love (Alternative Rock / Modern Rock / Electronic)
88. Blink-182 - California (Pop-Punk)
89. Sono - Backyard Opera (Electropop, Synthpop)
90. Eagulls - Ullages (Indie Rock, Post-Punk)
91. Dreamers – This Album Does Not Exist (Indie Rock / Pop-Rock)
92. Bad Suns - Disappear Here (Alternative Rock / Indie Rock)
93. Zoos Of Berlin - Instant Evening (Indie Pop/ Electronic)
94. Stuck In The Sound - Survivor (Indie Rock)
95. Blossoms - Blossoms (Indie-pop / Rock)
96. Islands - Taste (Indie Pop)
97. Augustines - This Is Your Life (Indie Rock)
98. Stone Broken - All In Time (Alternative Rock / Post Grunge)
99. Nine Lashes - Ascend (Alt. Rock / Alt. Metal / Christian)
100. Nadeah - While The Heart Beats (Indie Pop/ Alternative)
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