![]() Just as with their 2009 debut Post-Nothing, and the 2012 follow-up Celebration Rock, there are just eight songs, the cover shot is a black and white portrait of the two, and the group again produced the album themselves. That devotion to brand maintenance is readily apparent on the Canadian group’s new album Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, which will be released next year on 1/27. His bandmate, drummer, and singer David Prowse, isn’t quite as relentlessly committed to the band’s signature black and white look. The Japandroids singer and guitarist says that for the past decade, he’s only worn and purchased black and white clothing. Aesthetics are very important to him and his band, as anyone who’s glanced at his album covers can attest. King is wearing black pants and a black T-shirt, and shortly after he arrives and pets Cooley, he changes into even tighter black jeans and a black sleeveless T-shirt. As soon as Japandroids’ Brian King gets to the studio, he starts playing with the cat, and in-between getting his photo taken, he’ll repeatedly walk over to Cooley, lounging in a director’s chair and stroke his fur. There are platinum album plaques for Lauryn Hill and Maxwell scattered about, industrial lights in the corner and a gray Bengal house cat named Cooley wandering about where he pleases. It’s not necessarily named for the Yazoo album Johnson just liked the name. Upstairs At Eric’s is an apartment and photo studio in midtown Manhattan owned by photographer Eric Johnson.
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