The Vaccines release highly anticipated 'Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations' album with a euphoric sound

2023-09-20 14:05:04

The Vaccines talk "euphoric" new album 'Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations'

The Vaccines have announced details of their sixth album 'Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations' and shared its first single 'Heartbreak Kid', plus news of a new UK tour. Check it all out below along with our interview with frontman Justin Young.

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'Heartbreak Kid' marks the band's first piece of new material since their 2022 EP 'Planet Of The Youth' and the first release since the departure of original guitarist Freddie Cowan.

New Single: 'Heartbreak Kid'

The track details romantic loss set to widescreen, surging guitars and a punchy, anthemic rhythm section - while Young sings about a relationship crumbling to nothing.

“I’m not necessarily professing to be the protagonist,” he told NME. “The whole record is very personal and real, and experienced and lived, but there are some songs on the record that are very literal and there are some that are stories. With ‘Heartbreak Kid’, I think it pretty much does what it says on the tin.”

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Loss in many different forms fuels 'Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations' - a theme that Young said has been a part of The Vaccines' DNA for a long time. “That’s always been in not just our lyrics but our sound as well,” he explained. “There’s a sense of nostalgia and looking in the rearview mirror and wondering if what you left behind is better than what you’re heading towards.

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“It’s quite explicitly in the lyrics, but then it’s in the music as well. It’s in the melody and the sound. This record feels nostalgic. Something I’ve said about our music so many times is there’s euphoria and melancholia in equal measure. I don’t think this is a sad or depressing record – I actually think it’s quite hopeful and euphoric – but I do think it has these melancholic undertones.”

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'Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations' finds The Vaccines making a clean break from the sonic palette of 2021 album 'Back In Love City' and 'Planet Of The Youth', which pulled from everything from disco to spaghetti Westerns. That’s been replaced in favour of something more organic.

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“We have this incredible, amazing rock drummer [Yoann Intonti], who everybody I know that plays with him is like, ‘This guy is insane’, so why are we programming all the drums?” He said. “Why are we taking the humanity out of that? Tim [Lanham] is now playing guitar and he’s this incredible, melodic guitar player – why would you not bring that to the front of what you do?”

The Vaccines' UK Tour Dates

February 2024

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1. Birmingham, O2 Institute
2. Manchester, Academy
3. Nottingham, Rock City
4. London, Troxy
5. Margate, Dreamland Margate
6. Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall
7. Southampton, O2 Guildhall
8. Bristol, O2 Academy
9. Oxford, O2 Academy
10. Brighton, Dome
11. Sheffield, O2 Academy
12. Leeds, O2 Academy
13. Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
14. Newcastle, NX

'Pick-Up Full Of Carnations' will be released on January 12, 2024. Tickets for The Vaccines' UK tour will go on sale on September 29. Visit here for more information.

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