Six years is, to quote Mott The Hoople, “a mighty long way down rock ‘n’ roll”. Though it might only feel like yesterday that The Vines ram-raided their way into the public consciousness, 2008 finds them releasing their fourth album ‘Melodia’. . It greets the world with the kind of blinking, wide eyed enthusiasm of a band just out of the garage. The real story, though, is of a band from south Sydney who experienced an accelerated career lived out very publicly in a whirlwind of brilliant pop records (their debut ‘Highly Evolved’ selling 1.5 million copies), 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.

And so onto 2008. No one really had the right to expect to find The Vines in such rude health, but with their fourth album, the band are ready to drop back in where they started. The record, recorded again in LA with Rob Schnapf (‘Highly Evolved’, ‘Winning Days’), sees the band pushing themselves to the polar extremes of their sound – pummelling, speedball fired demento rock amped up to the Nth degree.

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