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"The second album is always the most difficult," even for the latest "next big thing" of English indie rock. Especially when the task is to follow up a little musical miracle like "What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?", a record that had prompted cumbersome comparisons with names like Arctic Monkeys, Strokes, and even Ramones for the Vaccines.
The young London band certainly shows that they lack no courage, abandoning the successful punk of their beginnings for an album with heavier and rockier sounds, as fully testified by tracks like "Teenage Icon" and "Bad Mood". Yet, the Vaccines don't forget to also wink at America (the beautiful "I Always Knew", "All In Vein"), while ensuring some more intimate and relaxed moments ("Weirdo", "Lonely World").
"Cause when you're young and bored and 24 and you don't know who you are nobody's no hope and it's hard to come of age," sings Justin Young in the debut single "No Hope". But this is undoubtedly a more mature and considered album, with the risk, however, of losing the freshness and immediacy that were the fortune of their debut album.
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By Loconweed
"No Hope" featuring a typically English and stereotypically cynical lyric, perhaps the best track of this work.
The second album by the Vaccines seems like a collection of bland songs and in some cases derivative.
By scummyman
This is not a bad album because it is composed of decent songs, where the Vaccines once again show they can find great melodies with a rare immediacy.
The Vaccines, despite reaffirming themselves as a promising reality, are overreaching, exploring territories where they do not always demonstrate they can move well.
By GabriAvella
It was such a productive period that it would have been foolish to let the opportunity slip by.
Come of Age does not hold up in comparison to its dazzling predecessor, even though it possesses a handful of songs that would make 90% of today’s bands green with envy.
