The Vaccines

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Album leaked. It's absolutely great (except for "Post Break Up Sex" which remains a total piece of shit song).

FUCKING amazing, just fantastic. my favourite british rock album since The Horrors' Primary Colours.
so glad it's good as there's been a weird kind of backlash-before-the-hype's-even-started from sneery would be hipster types. fuck em.

I missed the hype build-up. I just found out about them last December or so kind of by accident when I looking to see what Jay Jay Pistolet was up to. Turns out he went back to his real name and started a band called The Vaccines.

He used to do a pretty good M.Ward impression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGQKLgL2Wg

fans of this lot:
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check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxusFwdgbs

um yeah this album is fucking good.

actually, i'm really looking forward to picking it up from fopp when they drop it to a fiver.
and co-sign the statement about the use of the old columbia logo on the sleeve, its a nice touch, and suits the cover art nicely.

if you wanna...fantastic

They've certainly got the tunes (Post Break-Up Sex excepted) and even though they're shamelessly derivative it's a lot of fun.

Problem that won't go away is the singer - he has a sort of Danny McNamara anti-charismatic bellow that means he should really not try to hold notes for very long. Or be upfront-and-centre in the mix.

Their live set is now expanded from 30 minutes to 32 mins 30 secs by the addition of a cover of Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White.

spot on matt.

picked up the album and loving its simple charms, but how on earth is the live cd being priced at £24 !?!

presented without comment

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"If You Wanna" is pretty good. The rest of this album is decent, but this is the standout for me.

is it me, or is there a big Morrissey thing going on with the vocals?

warmed up considerably to the first album. at least 5-6 very good songs on this.

I think they're an underrated group. I think Justin's a very sharp songwriter, who knows exactly where he and they are going. Heard from several people connected with the group that he insisted on leaving several songs off the second album that everyone else thought were the best, because he insisted they weren't Vaccines songs. And I'm inclined to credit that to a clear eyed view of his audience than blind stupidity.

Also … he is incredibly nice. He recently went to my friend's house – whom he'd never met – to record some guitar parts for an album, because I emailed and asked him to. I'm not his best mate or anything - have met him three times. That struck me as an act of staggering decency.

it's not gonna win any awards for originality, but it's got a lot of what I look for in music: a combination of fun and melancholia set to jangles and memorable tunes.

pretty music obsessed with this album now.

New song just released... Song is very forgettable, video is weird, kind of terrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6eODKYHXI

These people are terrible but the riff for Dream Lover is great