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- Summary: The fourth and final full-length studio release from Canadian indie rock duo Japandroids was co-produced with Jesse Gander.
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- Record Label: Anti-
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Oct 17, 2024‘Fate & Alcohol’ is also the closest they have ever come to perfecting their own sound.
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Record CollectorNov 4, 2024A perfect, if bittersweet, swansong. [Dec 2024, p.107]
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Dec 6, 2024Fate & Alcohol is the kind of album that gets into your bloodstream and lingers, ever so slightly shifting the way you see the world and your place in it. If it really is the end for Japandroids, it's a farewell that feels like it could go on forever.
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Oct 18, 2024Fate & Alcohol may not overflow with the pure, undiluted elation of their previous albums, but it’s a fond farewell nonetheless, and one that beautifully caps the riotous run of a truly and rightly beloved band.
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Nov 13, 2024All in all, Fate and Alcohol makes for a solid final act for a band which beat the actuarial tables by a wide margin.
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Oct 17, 2024They offer up Fate & Alcohol, ten songs in thirty-six minutes that mostly succeed by wrestling with maturity and life’s big decisions but never reach the heights of their youth.
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Oct 23, 2024On Fate & Alcohol, Japandroids deliver the conviction that made their early records so great, but cannot overcome the palpable mismatch between their current lives and the characters their newest songs portray.