THE VASELINES
Twenty years in the making, the second Vaselines album is here. Behold…
…Sex With An X…THE PAST
Formed in Glasgow in 1987, The Vaselines released two singles and one album, Dum Dum, on the 53rd & 3rd label. Splitting up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released), they might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle. Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto.
Founding members Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee remained musically active throughout the intervening years: the former with Captain America aka Eugenius and finally as a solo artist; McKee with Painkillers and Suckle.
Eugene and Frances collaborated intermittently in the intervening years. They toured jointly and played a few of the old songs together in the wake of their respective solo project releases in 2006. But an acclaimed, unannounced appearance at a fundraiser in Glasgow’s Mono for Malawi Orphan Support in 2008 was the real catalyst for their latest, exciting bout of creativity.
Ensuing tours of America (including a stand-out appearance at Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary festival, SP20), Brazil, Japan and some UK festival dates saw The Vaselines “re-connect” with wildly appreciative audiences who had blinked and missed them the first time round. Buoyed by the success of their live return, the two punk rock chums decided to go back into the studio.
THE PRESENT
Recorded outside Manchester at the Analogue Catalogue studio in Mossley with Julie McLarnon engineering and produced by Jamie Watson who produced that first album Dum Dum, Sex With An X was recorded the old-fashioned way: twelve songs in thirteen…
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The Vaselines - Sex with an X
SP889 - Released: September 14, 2010
Formed in Glasgow in 1987, The Vaselines released two singles and one album (Dum Dum on the 53rd and 3rd label) and then split up in 1989 (in the…
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- Promo Photo - The Vaselines Promo 2 (by Wattie Cheung)
- Promo Photo - The Vaselines Promo 1 (by Wattie Cheung)
- Bio - Sex With An X bio
- Cover - The Way of the Vaselines
- Cover - Enter The Vaselines
- Cover - Sex with an X
- Feature in City Arts Magazine (Seattle)
- Feature in the Sunday Paper (Atlanta)
- New York Times Show Review
- Show review on Spin.com
- Feature in the Boston Globe
- Feature on AOL Spinner.com
- Spin Album Review of "Sex with an X"
- Album Review in Verbicide
- Interview with The Vaselines in The Guardian (Jul. 19, 2010)
- Pitchfork review of Enter The Vaselines