The Vaccines live in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
The Vaccines are neatly previewing their new album ‘English Graffiti‘ as the LP’s opener ‘Handsome‘ is to be immediately followed by the second track on the running order, ‘Dream Lover‘.
The single precedes the album by a week on May 18th and comes after the band chased a sound very much of 2015 during recording sessions with producer Dave Fridmann, according to frontman Justin Young.
“I started to feel that being timeless isn’t a good thing,” he told NME. “I wanted to make a record that was important in 2015 and sound like 2015, sonically and emotionally.”
“People just aren’t ambitious in rock music. If you take hip-hop or pop, they’re a lot more adventurous, they break a lot more rules. If you listen to some of the stuff on the radio right now, it’s fucking far out.”
The Vaccines are currently on tour in the UK and will play Baths Hall in Scunthorpe tonight (March 31st).