Vaccines

Vaccines
Melody Calling
 is certainly a brave release, in that it has the capacity to cause a stir within a fanbase who may be expecting more instantly addictive tunes. Yet its start is not particularly promising.  The title track, drenched in reverb and sweet guitar licks, is damaged by repetitive, borderline god-damn banal lyrics, with the phrase “melody calling” repeated a farcical twenty five times in a song that only last around three minutes.  ‘Do You Want A Man?’ however is a vast improvement on its predecessor; channelling the psychedelic aura of The Charlatans and spirit of Jagwar Ma, if all future Vaccines tracks sound like this, there’ll be no more having to refer to them as a guilty pleasure.