Japandroids
No Singles
Album · Alternative · 2010 · Polyvinyl Records
Auspicious beginnings from the big-hearted punk band. Collecting two out-of-print EPs released before 2009’s full-length Post-Nothing, Singles shows a hairier, harsher side of the band, as inclined to scuzzy shoegaze and post-punk (“Darkness on the Edge of Gastown,” “Couture Suicide”) as the cathartic shout-alongs that became their stock and trade (“No Allegiance to the Queen,” “Coma Complacency”).

