Vision Valley by The Vines

Vision Valley, the third studio album from Sydney's the Vines, came out on 1 April 2006 through EMI and Capitol, and it's the band's first record without bassist Patrick Matthews, who had left in 2004. That leaves Craig Nicholls, singer, guitarist and the one constant in the band's story, holding the whole thing together.

It's a sharp jolt of hard rock in the Vines' familiar mix of garage-band snarl and '90s alternative crunch, with Nicholls swinging between sweet melody and raw-throated noise. "Don't Listen to the Radio" is the one that made the countdowns, a title with some cheek for a band that needed the radio. It followed Winning Days, and the next thing out of the Vines camp was The Best of The Vines.

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