What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? by Vaccines

What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?, the debut from the West London band, landed on Columbia on 11 March 2011, and it arrived with the kind of momentum British guitar bands dream about: two singles had already done the groundwork, and by the end of the year it was the biggest-selling debut by any band in 2011.

The four who formed the group in 2010, Justin Hayward-Young singing and playing guitar, Freddie Cowan on guitar, Arni Arnason on bass and Pete Robertson on drums, play like they're racing each other to the chorus. The songs are short, sharp and fuzzy, the kind of rush that had critics reaching for the Ramones, the Strokes and the Jesus and Mary Chain, with Young's big, slightly lovelorn croon riding on top. "If You Wanna" and "Wetsuit" were the ones that stuck on the countdowns. Reviews were mostly warm, it went gold by May, and a decade later it got a pink-vinyl anniversary pressing limited to 2500 copies.

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