In their Progress Report interview, and in this Pitchfork interview, the two fairly unassuming late-20s dudes in Japandroids talk a lot about how they love touring and hate recording. Touring the world, for two guys from Vancouver who'd never had the chance, was a revelation, and so they went into the studio to record Celebration Rock just so they'd have an excuse to spend another couple of years on the road. The band had almost ended a ton of times, because they'd come close to breaking up around the time their 2009 debut Post-Nothing came out or because a perforated ulcer seriously threatened frontman Brian King's health. So it was a fucking miracle that they got to meet people and play this music across the world, and they couldn't wait to do it again. I like to think that I can hear that mad urgency in Celebration Rock. It's an album that needs to exist so that the people who made it can return to this improbably glorious life, and it sounds like it.