The Vaccines' English Graffiti is Album of the Day+

The Vaccines debut their third studio album exclusively on BBC 6 Music and performed All Afternoon in Love for the first time live. Frontman Justin Hayward-Young spoke to Lauren about the making of the album:

"It’s the first song I wrote back in October 2013, along with I Want You So Bad... They were the only songs I wrote on my bed with an acoustic guitar and are two of the most cathartic songs."

"When I wrote In Love I immediately thought of [producer] Dave Fridmann. He’s sort of an anarchist, nothing is going to sound ordinary: you’re in the middle of nowhere under five feet of snow. Every time you leave the house you have to wear a fluorescent vest because of the hunters."

"It’s the first time we’ve been sitting on a record for so long. We finished in February and we started recording well over a year ago. It was weird to think it was going to be a year before anyone heard it."

"When [St Vincent] makes a guitar sound the last thing you want it to sound like is a guitar and it’s such a fresh approach."

"If you take a record like Nevermind, it’s brilliant but I do think it sounds terrible and it sounds of a time: it sounds like the production of the early to mid 90s. I felt you couldn’t date our previous records. It’s not true that I want our record to sound bad in 10 or 15 years, but I wanted it to belong to particular moment or era."

“We’ve embraced production for the first time. We’d always written songs, recorded them and put them out and never really done much more. I think it’s important to incorporate things that sound of the time like production techniques.”