“If they try to slow me down, I’ll tell them all to go to hell,” Brian King screams on “The House That Heaven Built,” the first single off Japandroids’ recent year-end-list contender Celebration Rock. The band has said that the album was made with joyous audience sing-alongs in mind, and Celebration inspires that and more: On your headphones, Japandroids are a fun walk to the subway; live, they’re a pop-punk revelation. In support, DIIV (formerly known as Dive), the solo project of Beach Fossils guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, delves into xx-style mood-setting.
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