The Vaselines - "I Hate The 80's"

18 years after Kurt Cobain breathed new life into them, The Vaselines are putting out a new album (!). It's funny how no one expected them to make one, while the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine have repeatedly mentioned new releases, all to no avail. Out in September, Sex With An X features the song "I Hate The 80's", released as a free download on the band's website yesterday. The song isn't quite as rough and tumble as the tracks off of Dum Dum, but Eugene Kelly's bent indie blues guitar hasn't aged a day. Neither has their sugary sweet harmony vocals, which coast through this duet so effortlessly perfect, that it sounds as if this song were from some locked up followup the band made in the 90's that no one knew about. More so than anything, the song sounds like great jangly indie rock akin to Guided By Voices and Polaris. Sex With An X will now at least give us one reason to look forward to the end of summer (aside from those NY Pavement shows that is).