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| 3.0 good | ThyCrossAwaits | January 12th 24 |
I've never been more confused by a band's trajectory...after two pretty great first records they released the dumpster fire of English Graffiti, then return with Combat Sports which I think is on par with their best. Then another pile of overproduced garbage with Back In Love City, before again falling back on their reverb-laden Britrock here. rDefinitely plays it safe, but we've seen what these guys consider "pushing the envelope" and it's not good.
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| 3.5 great | ZackSh33 | January 12th 24 |
Nearly a decade after modestly proclaiming that their third album English Graffiti would change
the musical landscape (spoilers: it didn't), we find the Vaccines regaining their footing after
the inexplicable Back in Love City and the huge loss of Freddie Cowan on guitar.
The best way to describe the sound here is a combination of the washed out vocals of their first
album with the basic chord structures of Combat Sports with a few nicely placed 80s style synths.
You could call this album playing it safe - 10 similar tempo tracks in 31 minutes don't provide
the most dynamic listening experience (shockingly, there are no ballads to be found on here, the
album could really use one).
"Sometimes, I Swear," "Primitive Man" and "Another Nightmare" stand out to me as the highlights on
the first couple listens. This is a good but not outrageously great album, certainly encouraging
for the future of the band and a welcome step in the right direction, but the loss of Cowan's
upfront fiery guitar on the album where Young "rediscovered" that the Vaccines should be a guitar
forward band is a bit of a tragedy.
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| 4.0 excellent | alexslavco | December 4th 23 |
Lunar Eclipse is their best song in years, hoping for a good album
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| 2.0 poor | Dewinged STAFF | January 18th 24 |
| 2.5 average | iGuter | January 16th 24 |
| 2.5 average | fog CONTRIBUTOR | January 12th 24 |
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