Neverending Postpunk Britpop.
The Londoners called their first album WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES in 2011? There were many possible answers to the question, but you couldn’t necessarily expect that the band would still be around 13 years later and release their sixth record. The Vaccines initially seemed more like a cool quickie than a long-running theme, it was hard to imagine that this group would still be playing “Post Break-Up-Sex”, their big hit from their debut album, many years later.
But she does. What’s more: all of the songs from PICK-UP FULL OF PINK CARNATIONS could have found a place on the debut. Hooks and hooks, plus nervous guitars and drums and Justin Young’s voice, which sounds dark and defiant, giving it a distant coolness.
This sameness isn’t a bad thing: after a good 30 minutes the record is finished, you felt well entertained, what remains in your memory is “Discount De Kooning (Last One Standing)”, inspired by the debate about what discounts are possible if you The works of the Dutch artist Willem de Kooning were auctioned as a bundle with a total value in the three-digit million range. Young’s suggestion: Don’t think about it for long, just keep dancing.