The Vaccines tell us about “hopeful and euphoric” new album ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’

nme.com:

The Vaccines have announced details of their sixth album ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ and shared its first single ‘Heartbreak Kid’, plus news of a new UK tour.

Check it all out below along with our interview with frontman Justin Young.‘Heartbreak Kid’ marks the band’s first piece of new material since their 2022 EP ‘Planet Of The Youth’ and the first release since the departure of original guitarist Freddie Cowan.The track details romantic loss set to widescreen, surging guitars and a punchy, anthemic rhythm section – while Young sings about a relationship crumbling to nothing.“I’m not necessarily professing to be the protagonist,” he told NME. “The whole record is very personal and real, and experienced and lived, but there are some songs on the record that are very literal and there are some that are stories.

With ‘Heartbreak Kid’, I think it pretty much does what it says on the tin.”The chorus of the single finds the frontman switching between two usages of the title, first urging: “Let your heart break, kid.” Later, he twists it into a new moniker, singing: “Oh you never thought they’d leave you but they did / Now everybody calls you the heartbreak kid.”“I do enjoy a call to arms sometimes, which I don’t really know how often we’ve done because maybe it can be hard to get right,” Young said. “But there’s a subtle flip in there, which I quite like.”Loss in many different forms fuels ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ – a theme that Young said has been a part of The Vaccines’ DNA for a long time. “That’s always been in not just our lyrics but our sound as well,” he explained.