I'm not sure what it is that Japandroids did right. I've been grappling with it for awhile now, but since their debut released like, what was that two months ago? I dunno, erroneous, I have been able to return to this song over and over again and find its lyrical simplicity and single hook so damn refreshing. Brian King (singer/guitar) capitalizes on that hallmark teenage angst reviewing he and some sweethearts scheme to run away and elope, and each stanza evokes that kind of hair-raising nostalgia. "forget the rushing/ Forget the weather/ we'll turn our christian names together/ we'll leave all our friends back home-- we'll leave tonight/ and we'll leave together/ and they'll say it ain't right/ and we'll say whatever/ we'll write all our friends back home" That misunderstood teenage romance always feels heartbreakingly relevant, evoking those lost loves and what not, yet simultaneously it pulses with the exuberance of youthful freedom and recklessness. The return to "leave/write all our friends back home" at the end of each line causes a little heartswell, It might just be me bust theres just something so universal about that ideal. The song quickly reaches its anthem-ic chorus in which King cries "it's raining/ in Vancouver but i don't give a fuck/ cause I'm in love with you tonight!" On paper it kind of looks silly i suppose, but its effortless in practice. The result is the kind of crescendo, that in a live setting, would lead to a pit of bouncing hipsters, which in my eyes spells success.
This song, along with Japandroids and "Post-Nothing", is deck as F. So... listen to it.
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