Japandroids have announced a new album, and it will be the band’s last. Fate & Alcohol, the follow-up to 2017’s Near to the Wild Heart of Life, is out October 18 via Anti-. Leading the LP is the new song “Chicago.” Find it below.
Guitarist and vocalist Brian King and drummer and vocalist David Prowse met as students, in the mid-2000s, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. They relocated to Vancouver and released their first Japandroids album, Post-Nothing, in 2009. Their second album, 2012’s Celebration Rock, was released to critical acclaim, and King and Prowse toured extensively in support of the record. They took a break before returning with Near to the Wild Heart of Life.
Discussing the duo’s final album, in a press statement, Brian King said:
Read about Celebration Rock at No. 113 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”
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Fate & Alcohol:
01 Eye Contact High
02 D&T
03 Alice
04 Chicago
05 Upon Sober Reflection
06 Fugitive Summer
07 A Gaslight Anthem
08 Positively 34th Street
09 One Without the Other
10 All Bets Are Off