The Vaccines - Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations

Released 12th January 2024

Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines - Justin Young (lead vocals, guitars), rni rnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and Yoann Intonti (drums) - are back with their sixth studio album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations.

The title comes from a misheard lyric from Don McClean's "American Pie," a song that for Young fittingly evokes the death of innocence and the American Dream. After he moved to Los Angeles - a city the band has grown up being captivated by - he was forced to wrestle with the disillusionment that comes when expectations, dreams, and reality don't quite meet. Yet, though Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations is an album about reconciling with loss, it's also filled with gratitude for the people and places we once loved. "Pink carnations symbolise gratitude and tell a person theyll never be forgotten," says Young. "So whether it's the loss of a lover, or a friend, or ev