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9.1
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A.V. Club
The Vaccines do a good job of turning up the drama during their more restrained moments, resulting in a rare species: the well-rounded pop-jugular album
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Fly
It’s youthful, ambitious and mesmerisingly catchy
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
This might be distinctive and shrewdly simplistic enough to define your entire summer
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8.0
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Spin
Draws on the Jesus & Mary Chain tradition of sweet early '60s pop'n'roll married to sour punk noise
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8.0
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Blurt
Loses a little steam by the second half, but it's forgivable. The slow spots fall away from the core of this album, which happens to be a sweet, addictive fusion of both modern and vintage style
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8.0
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BBC
It’s the rawer, less-than-perfect moments that make What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? a hell of a lot more interesting than the copycat indie rock record it at first appears to be
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8.0
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Uncut
Immediate and impressive. Print edition only
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Mojo
A breathlessly exciting debut, its giddy raunch'n'revisionism hard to resist. Print edition only
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Q
There's more than enough here to justify their talk-of-the-town status. Print edition only
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8.0
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NME
It's indie rock and The Vaccines do it better than any young British band has done in years
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8.0
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The Digital Fix
The song writing, informed by a clear love of a deep heritage, is largely outstanding
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8.0
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The Irish Times
Although the sound is drenched with indie idioms, they never run away from a pop hook. Well worth investigating.
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8.0
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Evening Standard
For those suffering from a lack of throwaway rock'n'roll, The Vaccines are currently the only cure
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
30-odd minutes of pulse-quickening indie-rock, with echoes of the Strokes and Glasvegas
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8.0
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The Scotsman
Best look elsewhere for your revolution but do stop by en route for melodic kicks
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7.0
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No Ripcord
As the mindless masses of the hype machine cough up endless ‘illegitimate Ramones/Beach Boys lovechild’ similes, please ignore them and enjoy this
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
The Vaccines album is largely a celebration of being young and in a band. Some things don’t have to make sense and the more this is kept in mind when listening to The Vaccines, the better the experience will be
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7.0
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Clash
There’s potential here - let’s not entrust the future of rock to them just yet...
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6.2
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Pitchfork
Sure, the band's buzzing guitars, thick reverb, and bouncy rhythms lack any particular spark of originality... Then again, there's no shame in catchy, concise, sharply executed tunes that communicate mildly fresh takes on relationships, either-- and this album has more than a few
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6.0
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Consequence Of Sound
The Vaccines are clenching onto rock and roll, and this album is an amicable chapter in the genre. Amicable
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6.0
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AU Review
What lifts it just beyond mere indie rock parody is the assuredness, the knowingness of the whole thing
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6.0
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Bowlegs
There are a couple of disappointing tunes... But all in all this is classic indie pop
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6.0
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The Guardian
In the era their music recalls, the Vaccines' ambitions would have extended no further than a few Peel sessions and a few singles on Subway or Creation. But in the post-Britpop world, that's no longer the way
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6.0
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The Observer
The reverb-heavy guitars and driving bass lines recall the Jesus and Mary Chain, and more recently the Killers, but the sunny celebration of adolescence is straight out of 60s pop
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5.0
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Drowned In Sound
A melodic, nicely put together set of post-punk indebted tunes
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5.0
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musicOMH
Suffers from a complete lack of intelligence, candidness or originality
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5.0
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Slant Magazine
The Vaccines develop a charming niche without ever offering anything new or innovative
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5.0
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musicOMH
The Vaccines,if they do represent a commercial revival of guitar music, aren't the kind of groundbreaking band we'll be looking back on in ten years time
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4.1
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Beats Per Minute
[Insert expected joke about getting exactly what you expected from The Vaccines: here]
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4.0
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The Quietus
Throughout the entire album, their fretwork and the production is beyond unremarkable: an automated Spectorite wash of sound here, a 60s girlband “bm bm-bm tsch” there
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4.0
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4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Hazy pop-rock singalongs paying anodyne homage to the Ramones, Jesus and Mary Chain and, er, Interpol
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4.0
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The Independent
Here it is, and here they are, putative saviours of a flagging indie sector, except that nobody thought to ask the punters
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2.0
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The Skinny
It's damn predictable – uncomplicated arrangements meshed with lyrics of an inconceivably trivial variety, delivered with a pastor’s conviction
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