The Vaccines album ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’ Out Today
The Vaccines Deliver Infectious Guitar-Pop Gold On New Album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations Out Today
U.S. Tour With The Kooks Kicks Off Next Month
January 12, 2024 – Today, British indie rock band The Vaccines release their anticipated new album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations via Thirty Tigers. Produced by Andrew Wells (Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers), the band’s sixth studio album drips with fun while also exploring the ways real life lets us down. Along with the release, the band also shares a video for their latest single “Discount De Kooning (Last One Standing),” a technicolor lament on the struggle to find value within ourselves.
Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations has garnered early praise from press including Consequence, DIY, NME and more. New Noise Magazine said “The Vaccines make disillusionment feel so good,” and UNCUT called the album “Instant indie canon,” declaring “‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’ finds The Vaccines at their terse, nervy best.” Guitar World praised the band’s single “Heartbreak Kid,” saying it “has everything you’d want from a Vaccines song: a catchy chorus, infectious melodies, and searing guitar licks that test the band’s indie rock resolve.” The band has also shared several other singles from the record, including the cathartic “Sometimes, I Swear,” the love-drunk “Love To Walk Away,” and the infectious earworm “Lunar Eclipse.”
This album is the epitome of what The Vaccines do best: 60’s-inspired classicist guitar pop filtered through a new wave lens, with equal parts euphoria and melancholy. Titled after a misremembered lyric in Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations illustrates the disillusionment that comes when expectations, dreams and reality don’t quite meet. Though the album is ultimately about reconciling with that loss, these 10 songs packed with hooks and melodies and pop smarts are also filled with gratitude for the people and places we once loved.
Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines have released five UK top five albums since their 2010 debut (the country’s best-selling debut that year), and toured with everyone from The Rolling Stones and Muse to Arctic Monkeys and Red Hot Chili Peppers.The band will make their return to the US this spring on a coast-to-coast tour with The Kooks. See a full list of tour dates below.
Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations Tracklist
1. Sometimes, I Swear
2. Heartbreak Kid
3. Lunar Eclipse
4. Discount De Kooning (Last One Standing)
5. Primitive Man
6. Sunkissed
7. Another Nightmare
8. Love To Walk Away
9. The Dreamer
10. Anonymous in Los Feliz
The Vaccines 2024 US Tour Dates with The Kooks
Feb 29 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Mar 1 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
Mar 2 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
Mar 4 – Toronto, ON @ QET History
Mar 5 – Montreal, QB @ Mtelus
Mar 6 – Albany, NY @ Empire
Mar 8 – Boston, MA @ MGM Fenway
Mar 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore
Mar 11 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
Mar 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Mar 13 – Washington DC @ Anthem
Mar 15 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera
Mar 16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Filmore
Mar 18 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
Mar 19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Union
Mar 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
Mar 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Fox Theatre
Follow The Vaccines:
L to R: Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Yoann Intonti (drums), Justin Young (lead vocals, guitars)
and Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals)
Photographer Credit: Wrenne Evans