The Vaccines - Planet of the Youth (2022)

The Vaccines have announced details of new EP ‘Planet Of The Youth’. Check out new song ‘Disaster Girl’ below, along with our interview with frontman Justin Young.

The new six-song EP will be released on April 8, less than six months after their latest album ‘Back In Love City’ became the indie veterans’ fifth Ttp five album and just ahead of a UK tour kicking off on April 13.

‘Planet Of The Youth’ was produced by Fryars Fryars, who co-produced ‘Back In Love City’, and is previewed by the NFT-inspired ‘Disaster Girl’.

“’Back In Love City’ was written and recorded before everything was changed in the pandemic,” Young told NME. “The new EP is all music that was written on my sofa, but thematically and sonically it continues in the vein of the album.”

Speaking of the new single’s origins, he said: “I read that an NFT of the ‘Disaster Girl’ meme had sold for $500,000 and thought it was funny that memes are now worth more than songs. I thought ‘Disaster Girl’ was a good song title, then realised it’d be interesting to write about someone who thought ‘I’m a disaster, girl’. We’ve all felt we’ve been a disaster in personal and family relationships, and I was playing on the apocalyptic feelings we get when we let ourselves down.

“If artists are able to find interesting, innovative and clever ways to support themselves, good on them. Whether there’s a market for Vaccines NFTs, I’m not sure.”

Check out our full interview with Young below, where he also tells us about what went into the new EP, his yearning to get back on the road, and his love of indie sleaze…

TRACKLIST

1. The Vaccines - Thunder Fever
2. The Vaccines - Planet of the Youth
3. The Vaccines - Young Meteors
4. The Vaccines - Twenty Four Seven
5. The Vaccines - Disaster Girl
6. The Vaccines - Hometown of Jupiter