Though it might only feel like yesterday that The Vines ram-raided their way into the public consciousness, their fourth album 'Melodia' was released 10 years ago. It greeted the world with the kind of blinking, wide eyed enthusiasm of a band just out of the garage. The real story, though, was of a band who have experienced an accelerated career lived out very publicly in a whirlwind of brilliant pop records, legendary gigs and gruelling world tours, breakdowns, break ups and the occasional fug of spliff smoke, enough to make lesser mortals run for the hills, never to return to the frontline.

No one really had the right to expect to find The Vines in such rude health, but with this album, the band are ready to drop back in where they started. The record, recorded with Rob Schnapf ('Highly Evolved', 'Winning Days') in LA, sees the band pushing themselves to the polar extremes of their sound -- pummelling, speedball fired demento rock amped up to the Nth degree (with the likes of "Manger", "Get Out" & "Scream") while bucolic pop is allowed to tranq out into classically beautiful lazy day territory ("A.S III", "True As The Night" & "Orange Amber"). Twisted psychedelia? 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? Kick ass first single, "He's a Rocker" iis arguably their finest two minutes and four seconds since "Get Free" (actually that was two mins seven but who's counting?).

Track Kisting:

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

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