release date: Sep. 3, 2012
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,60]
producer: Ethan Johns
label: Columbia Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "No Hope" - 2. "I Always Knew" - 3. "Teenage Icon" (4 / 5) (live) - 4. "All in Vein" - 7. "Weirdo" - 9. "Change of Heart, Pt. 2"
2nd full-length studio album by The Vaccines is a fine and somewhat overlooked follow-up to the extremely over-hyped debut.
The band deliver simple indie pop / garage rock, which makes me think of the band as an American version of Arctic Monkeys, but wait a sec.., The Vaccines are from London, England, UK! Lead vocalist Justin Young only has that thing for American tone. Oh well, anyway, the band leaves out the artistic neo-psychedelia inspiration and spit out chorus-fuelled punches one after the other. They must be a great live (party) band. The songs may not be suited for heavy lyrical analysis and interpretation - but that's really something I don't see as necessarily bad. Music is music, great poetry... well, apart from Cohen and Waits, it mostly and rather conveniently comes in... books.
I think this release is just as good as their first, and frankly (Mr. Shankly), I don't really find much progression from the debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (2011) but when 'power pop' songs come out so naturally, I mean, who gives a polite f#*k?
Quite enjoyable.
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