The Vaccines updated their fans on their upcoming album, and called it the best they’ve ever made. In December of 2020, the band had confirmed that they had finished recording and mixing their fifth album, which is set to be a follow up to the band’s 2018 ‘Combat Sports’.

On the 19th of February, The Vaccines reposted a snippet from an interview with the Rock Neto radio station, where band’s frontman Justin Young discussed the new album. He said, “I really truly believe it’s the best record we’ve ever made. I think for a long time we’ve maybe threatened to make a record that’s good but we haven’t quite managed it. It’s heavier in places, but it’s poppier in others, it’s a lot more kind of, I think well rounded like sonically and musically and lyrically. I don’t know I think it’s such a great record.”

Young further said that the band had recorded the album outside El Paso Texas towards the end of 2019, and that they finished recording the album right before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic but that “listening to it now it really resonates in a different way, it’s weirdly reflective of this year I think. It’s the longest record we’ve ever made – I think it’s like 13 or 14 tracks.” 

The band’s repost of the snippet of the interview comes shortly after the preview of their cover song ‘High Horse’ by Kacey Musgrave, which is set to feature on their upcoming EP ‘Karaoke’. For the song, The Vaccines’ stripped back Musgrave’s disco and fuck grooves. In the video for the cover, frontman Justin Young sang along to the track standing in front an Elvis Presley cut-out wearing a white cowboy hat. You can watch the video down below: