The Vines new single and album

New single He's A Rocker (FRYDL371) released 29th September
New Album Melodia (COOKCD481) released 6th October

The Vines have announced that will be releasing a new single, He's A Rocker, on Monday 29th September. Taken from their forthcoming album, Melodia, He's A Rocker is arguably the bands finest two minutes and four seconds since "Get Free" (actually that was two mins seven but who's counting?). The single is available as a digital download bundle only and features two new tracks – Hey Now and Blue Jam.

Melodia, The Vines fourth studio album, greets the world with the kind of blinking, wide eyed enthusiasm of a band just out of the garage. Recorded in LA with Rob Schnapf ('Highly Evolved' and 'Winning Days'), the album sees the band pushing themselves to the polar extremes of their sound – pummeling, speedball fired demento rock amped up to the Nth degree (with the likes of "Manger", "Get Out" and "Scream") while bucolic pop is allowed to tranq out into classically beautiful lazy day territory ("A.S III", "True As The Night" and "Orange Amber"). Album closer "She Is Gone" is a mesmerizing, circular riff that soars skywards into the stratosphere, all rippling guitars and angel's sigh vocals. Pure unadulterated gonzoid rock 'n' roll!

Full tracklisting as follows:

1. Get Out 8. Braindead
2. Manger 9. Kara Jayne
3. A.S III 10. MerryGoRound
4. He's A Rocker 11. Hey
5. Orange Amber 12. A Girl I Knew
6. Jamola 13. Scream
7. True As The Night 14. She Is Gone

In 2002, The Vines were at the very forefront of an exciting new rock movement around the world along with contemporaries The Strokes, The Hives and The White Stripes. Their debut album 'Highly Evolved', sold almost 2 million copies. Their second album 'Winning Days' was a less happy time for the band in spite of its quality when singer Craig Nicholls' increasingly erratic behaviour led to a diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome (a high functioning form of autism) and an extended hiatus as Nicholls learnt to deal with his condition. 'Vision Valley' saw the band re-emerge with a still fragile yet unshakably gifted Nicholls starting afresh. His gradual rehabilitation saw the band re-emerge on to the live stage again with a series of outstanding festival performances in Australia and the UK in 2006 including Big Day Out, Reading and Leeds. 2007 was spent writing and rehearsing songs for Melodia.

The next stage of The Vines career begins here and it's a safe bet to say that anything goes. In fact, based on the last six years, it's possibly best not to assume anything other than it's going to be a hell of a ride …

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