The Vaccines: 2011’s first shot in the arm?
Kevin Bronson on
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They’re the first Next Big Thing of the new year: The Vaccines are being hailed as the British quartet that could lift music out of its suffocating, synth-drenched morass. A friend e-mailed me Thanksgiving week to gird my ears (and background me with this excellent piece from the Guardian) – was I ready for the next Arctic Monkeys? Actually, yes. The young Englishmen play fast and loud, with songs that don’t overstay their welcome, and from the early buzz they don’t seem too full of themselves. To be sure, their first single, “Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra),” doesn’t take up much space on your hard drive. They debut their wares on American soil next week.
||| Live: The Vaccines play Tuesday at the Satellite.
||| Download: “Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)” [audio:http://www.mediafire.com/file/f6dndupkcwi5hro/The%20Vaccines%20-%20Wreckin%27%20Bar%20%28Ra%20Ra%20Ra%29.mp3]
||| Also: After the jump, trade your e-mail for a download of “Blow It Up”:
The Vaccines sound like a happy Interpol.
They sound good, but it’s nothing new, that’s for sure.
Love to hear a good British band creating this kind of Buzz. Unfortunately friends who’ve seen them live aren’t raving about them!?? But why, I thought they were about to change the music industry? I think this may be the case of same old. over-hyped major label buzz. Where’s the BALLS!?
The REAL indie Buzz band of 2011 from the uk are ‘NineteenSeventyNine’ but they are still pretty underground.