FEBRUARY
05 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
06 – Manchester, Academy
07 – Nottingham, Rock Metropolis
09 – London, Troxy (new date)
10 – London, Troxy
11 – Margate, Dreamland Margate
13 – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Corridor
14 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
15 – Bristol, O2 Academy
17 – Oxford, O2 Academy
18 – Brighton, Dome
19 – Sheffield, O2 Academy
21 – Leeds, O2 Academy
22 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
23 – Newcastle, NX
The Vaccines share guitar-forward new single ‘Love To Stroll Away’
The Vaccines have shared their brilliant, guitar-forward new single ‘Love To Stroll Away’ from their upcoming LP.
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Co-written by Andrew Wells (Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers), the monitor is the second single to be launched from the band’s sixth album ‘Decide-Up Full Of Pink Carnations‘ which is ready for launch on January 12 through Thirty Tigers and follows the track ‘Typically, I Swear’. You possibly can pre-order the LP here.
In response to a press launch, ‘Love To Stroll Away’ was the track that set the tone for the album’s course.”Typically going into an album precisely what it’s you need the music to do, and different occasions you’re ready for the music to inform you what to do,” stated The Vaccines frontman Justin Hayward-Younger.
He continued: “We knew we have been able to make one other report, however it wasn’t till we wrote ‘Love To Stroll Away’ on the primary day within the studio with Andrew that we knew how it might sound and really feel. So that is the track accountable for the album’s course, sonically and thematically. Given the album’s central theme isn’t realizing what course you’re headed in, it feels poignant that the music was so certain of itself so shortly.”
Talking concerning the forthcoming ‘Decide-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ in a latest interview with NME, Younger defined: “The entire report could be very private and actual, and skilled and lived, however there are some songs on the report which might be very literal and there are some which might be tales.”
Loss in many alternative varieties fuels the album – a theme that Younger stated has been part of The Vaccines’ DNA for a very long time. “That’s at all times been in not simply our lyrics however our sound as properly,” he stated.
“There’s a way of nostalgia and searching within the rearview mirror and questioning if what you left behind is healthier than what you’re heading in the direction of.”
The band have additionally added an additional London date to their 2024 UK headline tour (find any remaining tickets here). Moreover, Younger and co. will play a run of in-store gigs in January (buy tickets here).
The Vaccines’ 2024 UK dates are:
JANUARY
11 – London, Pryzm with Banquet Information (6:30pm)
11 – London, Pryzm with Banquet Information (8:30pm)
12 – Portsmouth, Southsea Pier with Pie and Vinyl (7:00pm)
13 – Liverpool, Content material with Tough Commerce (8:30pm)
14 – London, Tough Commerce East (matinee and eight:00pm)
The band’s earlier full-length launch was 2021’s ‘Again In Love Metropolis’. In a four-star overview of the LP, NME shared: “5 albums and 11 years in, you may count on a band of The Vaccines’ ilk – one which got here up by means of within the latter years of so-called “landfill indie” – to be previous their prime now. ‘Again In Love Metropolis’ refutes that assumption emphatically, presenting as a substitute a band nonetheless at their easiest and nonetheless brimming with concepts, invention and – most significantly – a knack for writing nice songs.”
They’re set to move out on tour with The Kooks as opening help for the US leg of their belated fifteenth anniversary tour for his or her 2006 debut album ‘Inside In/Inside Out’.