Back in Love City

Justin Young:

One of the reasons a band’s most successful record is often their first one is because there is this youthful, reckless abandon. You’re not crippled with self-doubt, not overthinking things. There’s a purity to all of it.

It stifled us for a while. We were obsessed with building on the first record, not just in terms of how good it was, but how big it was. I think we got a little bit lost along the way.

So, in many ways, we are a new band.

We’ve always tried to evolve but, at the same time, figure out our core and what makes The Vaccines The Vaccines. You want to remain interested and interesting and keep pushing yourself forward, but you want to pull everyone along with you. That keeps me awake at night.

—via Apple Music