The Vaccines (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
Drummer Pete Robertson has left, bassist Arni Arnason has solo pretensions, but neither has stopped The Vaccines from getting ‘really far along’ with a new album.
Justin Hayward-Young has told NME they are edging closer to recording the follow-up to 2015’s English Graffiti.
“We’re really far along, that’s what we’re doing all day everyday at the moment,” he revealed. “I mean we’re not recording it yet, but we’re writing a lot – and I mean we have a lot. There are a few songs we’re really excited about.”
“It sort of builds on the musicality of ‘English Graffiti’, but I think there’s a lot more of spirit and energy from ‘What Did You Expect…’.”
“We’re in the studio every day playing together, so it feels a lot more like a band again, which maybe English Graffiti stopped slightly. I guess it replenishes some of that spirit and that energy of the first record.”
Pete Robertson spoke of ‘new challenges’ and looking forward to ‘the next chapter of his life’ after leaving in June.