When you listen to “Arc of Bar” and “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner)”, there is a sense of love that brims from its lyrical observances of life.
Japandroids wrote Near To The Wild Heart of Life as rock n’ roll optimism using the big personality and rhythms of the genre to ignite in listeners a feeling of faith in life. No one misses their childhood as much as their childlike perspectives, and how they saw the world as something to be conquered rather than a conqueror. For me, whenever we look back to our younger days, it is how present we were in our excitements, loves, and possibilities that were truly miss, and Japandroids understand that. Thematically, Near To The Wild Heart of Life is a study of how we keep and further the child-like perspectives we have on life and our future.
Still, the most important thing this batch of “youngsters” can do for Japandroids is dream. Yet, Near To The Wild Heart of Life is an 8 track vision of young people dancing, drinking, and dreaming with friends to songs like “Near To The Wild Heart of Life”, “Midnight To Morning”, and “True Love and Free Life of Free Will”. The record strikes for the idealism of youth and the starry wonders defining this era that can actually be a harsher reality than perceived. This may come off “cheesy”, but it is actually fantastic. There is no doubt Near To The Wild Heart of Life aims for bigness in production with guitar and drum arrangements that sound like they were made for a film about Millennial youths.
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