The Vaccines Return With Impressive New Sound
English indie rockers, The Vaccines are back with their third full length album “English Graffiti”. This album follows 2012’s “Come Of Age” which really solidified The Vaccines’ loud, noise ridden, rock and roll sound. Songs like “Teenage Icon” and “Bad Mood” showed that the London based group had a real knack for writing a catchy chorus, and songs like “Weirdo” and “No Hope” proved that [Jason] Young had a real way with lyrics. In 2013 we were treat to the Melody Calling EP, which featured two singles which saw The Vaccines move away from their noisy rock sound and try out a more chilled out surf rock sound, a sound they most definitely pulled off, the lead single "Melody Calling" not only managed to establish The Vaccines as more than just a typical British indie band, but a band who seemed to be able to make an absolute tune no matter what the genre may be.
And once again The Vaccines have went and proved just that yet again, this new release features a lot of new styles by the boys, featuring more mellow, psychedelic influences like the single "Dream Lover", track 7 "Want You So Bad", and the very Strokes-esque "Minimal Affection", both of these songs once again show front-man Jason Young's genius lyrical skills. There are a lot of songs on this album that openly show influences from fellow indie artists, the track "20/20" sounds very Vampire Weekend inspired, and the mellow love song "Want You So Bad" almost resembles a Black Keys chart topper, showing The Vaccines' ability to give other artists' sound a shot, and pull it off better. Lead single "Handsome" almost seems like the band had a sudden realisation, after 2012's album of raw angst and self loathing with lyrics like "I'm no teenage icon" and the whole song "Bad Mood" in general, they are now back with lyrics like "Thank god I'm handsome", it seems like the four piece didn't want to wallow in self pity for all of their existence, and I respect that.
Overall I think this is The Vaccines' best release to date, it shows them to be more than people think they are, they unveil their true musical talents here, and I hope to hear more of this sound in the future. Well done boys.
7/10
FAV TRACKS: - Handsome - Dream Lover - Minimal Affection, 20/20 - Want You So Bad
LEAST FAV: Ummm... - Give Me A Sign -
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