THE VACCINES ANNOUNCE

“BACK IN LOVE CITY”

THE NEW ALBUM OUT SEPT 10^th 2021

TITLE TRACK OUT TODAY

SINGLE “HEADPHONES BABY” IN HIGH ROTATION WITH RADIO X (UK), P3 (SWEDEN), STUDIO BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), 3FM (NETHERLANDS), VIRGIN (UK), OUI FM (FRANCE), ABSOLUTE (UK)

28 x SPOTIFY NMFs

LISTEN TO TITLE TRACK, ‘BACK IN LOVE CITY’https://open.spotify.com/track/4XZBtvIXApjQ75xG7RUzwu?si=eff97eda87b5408d

The Vaccines release their new album, Back In Love City, on September 10th. Following on from current single, Headphones Baby, the band’s fifth LP is previewed today with the release of its title track which lands with Apple’s song starter and multiple NMF and NMD playlists globally.

Recorded at Sonic Ranch, El Paso, TX., with producer Daniel Ledinsky (Tove Lo, TV on the Radio, Rihanna), Back in Love City is The Vaccines’ most euphoric, visceral and visionary work to date. It’s a record that sees the five-piece assert themselves as one of Britain’s most vital guitar bands, with 13 songs set against the fictional metropolis of the album’s title.

Inspired by fictional cities – from Ridley Scott’s version of LA in Blade Runner to Cowboy Beebop’s Fear City – as much as places like Las Vegas, Tijuana and Tokyo, the idea of Love City took shape when the band’s frontman Justin Young set himself up in a house swap in Los Angeles, fuelling his fascination with disconnection: “I literally swapped lives with a stranger. I lived in in house and drove his car while he lived in mine, but we’d never met and had no previous connections.”

A modern-day pleasure island – equal part utopia and dystopia – Love City was born from the band’s fascination with emotions as commodities and the desperation for human connection. “In some obvious ways we’re more connected than ever,” Young explains. “But we’re also more polarised than we’ve been for 100 years and the world is getting colder. What if there was a place where love and other emotions had run dry – but you could go to Love City to get them?”

As a backdrop for the album’s hyperbolic tales of 21st-century escapism, the titular Love City allowed Young’s songwriting to flourish like never before. He imagined The Vaccines as the house-band in Love City, a place where safety, solace and satisfaction are on offer as much as love, where mental and physical pleasure is for sale, and where nobody has to be alone.

The album was finished early 2020 and mixed by Andrew Maury (Lizzo, Post Malone) with additional production from Fryars (Pharrell Williams, Mark Ronson). It’s theme of escapism inmodern life resonates more than ever in the pandemic era. It’s a massive musical leap forward for the band, too, and while the trademark surf swagger and Western flourish of The Vaccines sound remains, Back in Love City is their heaviest record so far. From the hard-hit of songs like “XCT”, “Wanderlust” and “Bandit” through to live fan favourite “Jump Off The Top” and the immediate rock n roll crash of “Headphones Baby”, it documents a band flexing at their creative peak.

Back In Love City Tracklisting:

1: Back In Love City

2: Alone Star

3: Headphones Baby

4: Wanderlust

5: Paranormal Romance

6: El Paso

7: Jump Off The Top

8: XCT

9: Bandit

10: Peoples Republic Of Desire

11: Savage

12: Heart Land

13: Pink Water Pistols