Album Review

The Vaselines – Sex With An X

• 5th Aug 2010

Indie acoustic music is back in all its sublime hippyness with The Vaselines album. Male fronted with female backing and hand clapping to boot!

It isn’t without its moody moment “I’ve got the devil inside me” provides something a little more substantial among the whimsical tunes on offer here. Belle and Sebastian fans may want to form an orderly queue if they need something to fill the gap.

Apparently it has taken 20 years for The Vaselines to get this one off the ground. Which is something of a shock as the material is perfectly adequate enough. But perfectly adequate music shouldn’t take this amount of time to come to fruition. The band had originally split back in 1989 – and despite Nirvana doing a few covers, it’s still taken a long time for this to come about. How odd?