The key to Japandroids has always been their lack of structural excess — just two guys, one on guitar, one on drums, both singing, usually in close proximity enough to one another that it looks like they might swap instruments mid-song. Like Kramer slicing the thinnest of deli meats in Seinfeld, there's nowhere for the flavor to hide, and this early performance clip of Post Nothing highlight "Young Hearts Spark Fire" is as perfect an illustration of that as any: all passion, urgency, and naive exuberance, and no room for filler even if they wanted. When the two unite on the pre-chorus "WOAHHHHH!!!" yelps, it's spine-tingling stuff.
