Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Take this song into your room, lock your door, and enjoy. Listen to your favorite songs from Come of Age by The Vaccines Now. It’s clear why praise has been showered on this band in only two short years of tracks and tours. However, all is redeemed by the finale Lonely World, with a fantastic mix of lazy, sexy guitar and Young’s mournful voice: resentfully telling the listener it’s “a lonely world”. 2 does come across somewhat laboured, and the album could stand without it. From the moment Alex Kapranos, The Maccabees, Mumford and Sons, and White Lies all turned up to the bands first ever London gig, a huge buzz has surrounded The Vaccines. Setting a precedent for the rest of the album, vocalist Justin Young uses his voice in a variety of styles: in Come of Age it has all the smoky prophecy of Bob Dylan, in Teenage Icon he gives it a more poppy, energetic flavour while, finally, in Aftershave Ocean, what appears initially to be a 50s rock track turns unmistakably into a Beatles-inspired ballad, so pull out your mother and father’s dancing shoes for that one.įrom then on, the album resonates with some strong punkish songs for hardcore fans of the genre, Bad Mood will probably strike a chord, although the less daring Change of Heart pt. The album leading Come of Age is a wild foray into rapid wordplay speaking about the singer’s apathy for the world around. For fans of their sound as it was, tracks like I wish I Was a Girl, Weirdo and I Always Knew are all promisingly poignant, and include electrifying and powerful riffs.īut don’t count out the experiments. Their second album, Come of Age, comes out on 2 nd September, and does indeed take the sound they found in 2011 and enhances upon it, and occasionally makes some terrific advances. Broadly speaking, these guys are an indie rock band, but with math-rock touches and are in large parts punk. The Vaccines have seen some impressive accolades pile up since they began in 2010, so the pressure’s so that their second album follows suit – or better yet: enhances upon their successes.