The Vaccines are 'Back In Love City' this September

I love most everything The Vaccines do, so I can't wait to hear this...

The Vaccines will release their new album, Back In Love City, on September 10. Recorded at Sonic Ranch, El Paso, TX, with producer Daniel Ledinsky (Tove Lo, Zara Larson, TV on the Radio), Back in Love City sees the five-piece present songs set against the fictional metropolis of the album’s title. The band previously shared the album’s first single “Headphones Baby” and now reveal the title track. Listen to “Back In Love City” here and watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/O4Vd430YnpE

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, fueling 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.”

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?”

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.

Finished early in 2020 and mixed by Andrew Maury (Lizzo, Post Malone) with additional production from Fryars (Pharrell Williams, Mark Ronson), the album is not a lockdown record, but its theme of escapism resonates more than ever in the pandemic era. 

The Vaccines are Justin Young (vocals, guitar), Freddie Cowan (guitar, vocals), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Tim Lanham (keyboards) and Yoann Intoni (drums). Since the band’s inception they have sold over two million records worldwide.

This new record follows the 10th anniversary celebrations of their seminal debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Each of their four albums so far have charted in the Top 5 in the UK, with second album, Come Of Age, hitting #1. Multiple Brit, NME, Q, Mojo awards nominees, they have done arena-filling headline shows and slots at festivals including Glastonbury and Reading/Leeds.

Pre-order Back In Love City here.

Track listing:

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