THE BAND: The Vaccines have announced details of the release of the first track from their forthcoming third album. The band released their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines in 2011 and the follow up, Come Of Age, reached number one in the UK album charts on release in 2012.
THE SOUND: The single was recorded in the winter of 2014 at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studio in upstate New York as part of the album sessions and produced by The Vaccines, Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, MGMT) and Cole MGN (Ariel Pink, Beck, Nite Jewel). Listen to the track below.
THE VIDEO: The riotous video sees the band taking on the roles of martial art trained vigilantes. The video was directed by CANADA, an international collective of directors based in Barcelona. “We wanted to create a video that was a sort of bubblegum ode to cinema and, in particular, Hong Kong kung fu movies,” explains Justin Young of the band. “Music to me is entertainment, and escapism, and we wanted the video to be an extension of that. We want to create another world in which we can play aspirational and heightened versions of ourselves. We shot this through a winter’s night in a warehouse in Brooklyn, just before Christmas. No fun indeed. Gerson though, as Canada directors always seem to do, helped us escape and create exactly the world in which we wish we lived.”
THE LOWDOWN: ‘Handsome’ is available to pre-order here. The track will be released on Monday 9th March 2015. The band will play a short tour including a show at Glasgow’s Old Fruit Market venue. The tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 23rd January 2015 via here. The UK tour dates include:
MARCH
27th Nottingham Rock City
28th Hartlepool Borough Hall
29th Glasgow Old Fruit Market
31st Scunthorpe Baths Hall
APRIL
1st Manchester Albert Hall
3rd Portsmouth Pyramids
4th Bath Pavilion
5th Folkestone The Leas Cliff Hall
8th London Brixton Electric
