Originally written by Luke Slater · 10 June 2010
The Vaselines are going to finally release another album, and so will surely hold the world record for the greatest length of time elapsed between first and second full-lengths. There can't be any competition? It's been over 20 years ferchrissakes!
So yes. Dum Dum came out in 1989 but the new slab o' indie-pop will see the light of day in in a few months' time. It's called Sex With An X and will 'hit' shelves on September 13 through Sub Pop. Ever since Eugene and Frances reformed for a few tours there had been talk of new material and a new LP, so here we are, at last!
The tracks featured on the album are:
• Ruined
• Sex With An X
• The Devil Inside Me
• Such a Fool
• Turning It On
• Overweight But Over You
• Poison Pen
• I Hate the 80's
• Mouth to Mouth
• Whitechapel
• My God's Bigger Than Your God
• Exit The Vaselines
12 tracks. I can't see the record being much over 30 minutes, nor should we really want it to be. You can download a single slice from it as a preview, though. It's 'I Hate The 80's' and can be obtained by sticking your e-mail address in the widget below. Simple. The song's quite fun because you can change the lyrics in the chorus to suit whatever you're feeling at the time: i.e "London is shi-i-it, London is shit" for you Northerners.
As well as Sex With An X, the band are playing these dates in the near-ish future, not forgetting their appearance at ATP's Bowlie 2 in December of this year.
September: 15 - Edinburgh, Bongo Room 16 - Newcastle, Other Room 17 - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 18 - Liverpool, Static Gallery 19 - Cardiff, Millennium Music Hall 20 - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms 21 - Bristol, Thekla 22 - London, The Scala 23 - Manchester, Deaf Institute 24 - Glasgow, Oran Mor