Japandroids are back with another new single from their forthcoming final album, Fate & Alcohol. The new song “All Bets Are Off,” which closes out the LP, drew direct inspiration from singer-guitarist Brian King’s tour diary on a night off, during which he spotted an old flame while posting up at a bar to observe characters. Give it a listen below.
“All Bets Are Off” follows the previously released Fate & Alcohol singles “D&T” and “Chicago.” The full album arrives on October 18 via Anti-. When explaining how they approached their new and last LP, King explained that Japandroids “made certain that every song ripped in our jam space before [longtime recording engineer] Jesse [Gander] ever heard it,” a way for them to prioritize energy and volume.
King and singer-drummer David Prowse met in the mid-2000s as students at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. They released their first Japandroids album, Post-Nothing, in 2009 after relocating to Vancouver, and followed it up with 2012’s Celebration Rock, 2017’s Near to the Wild Heart of Life, and the 2020 live album Massey Fucking Hall.
Revisit the 2016 interview “Synths! Ballads! Acoustic Guitars! Welcome to Japandroids 2.0.”