The Vaccines - English GraffitiThe Vaccines release their new album, 'English Graffiti' via Columbia Records. The album was recorded in the winter of 2014 at Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studio in upstate New York and produced by The Vaccines, Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, MGMT) and Cole MGN (Ariel Pink, Beck, Nite Jewel). The album ranges from the typical straight up pop stunner 'Handsome' to acoustic heartbreaker 'Gimme a Sign'. This is a band able to play pop magpies of

aka Blood Orange

aka Purity Ring

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There are fewer more indicative opening couplets than these: "Let's wake up and go back to bed / 'Cause today's gonna suck / I would rather be here at home / All this work can get fucked

'Old England' is a morality tale of epic proportions

in the tiny top-floor room overlooking the Westway

completed with reformatted artwork

"An Essex man after my own heart" Steve Lamacq

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These are the first recordings of the band‰۪s quartet line-up of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

in Southend on Saturday