The Vaccines' Justin Young

The Vaccines' Justin Young

The Vaccines are hoping that their new album will sound "terrible" in a decade's time.

Working on their third LP, they've been deliberate in shunning the "timeless" sound of their first two records in favour of something that reflects this year.

Justin Young, frontman of the band explained to NME magazine: "I wanted to make a record that was important in 2015 and sounded like 2015, sonically and emotionally.

"I think with our next album we wanted to make something that sounds amazing next year and then terrible in 10 years. If you listen to anything from the 1990s now, it sounds f***ing awful but that's part of its identity."

The rocker's also keen for the album to lead the way into a new sound.

"The record's hyper-stylised in a way we've never worked before. Nothing is natural-sounding, it's a lot more future sounding.

"We wanted to be creative and exploratory. We wanted to make a genre-defining record rather than something that would just fit in."

He also lamented the lack of "ambition" in rock music today, insisting it's now less "adventurous" than other genres.

"People just aren't ambitious in rock music. If you take hip-hop or pop, they're a lot more adventurous, they break a lot more rules.

"If you listen to some of the stuff on the radio right now, it's f***ing far out."


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