Buy Sex With an X

More than 20 years after their first, and only, full-length, The Vaselines will tour in support of their sophomore album Sex With An X.  Better late than never, right?  And what’s more, you can stream the album for free one week before it hits stores.

Scheduled for a September 14 release on Sub Pop, the album features straightforward pop/rock tracks that employ simplicity as charming strategy.  With help from Belle & Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea on guitar and bass, as well as Michael McGaughrin on drums, Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly lay out songs that unapologetically toe the waters of their former musical romance, if only for the sake of making more music.  If the title track “Sex With an X” doesn’t boldly suggest it, then lines such as “Hey, hey, hey, I’ll take you on again” should have bells ringing inside that hollowed out cantaloupe you call a head.

The Vaselines recorded Sex With an X at Analogue Catalogue with help from Jamie Watson, who produced The Vaselines’ first full-length Dum Dum.  Twelve songs and 13 days after recording began, the album was complete, with bright, sunny, jangly, coyly sexual songs that oozed of ”good clean smut with a twist of bitter.”

Stream the album for yourself, and check out The Vaselines’ tour schedule below:

10.02 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10.03 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church Basement
10.05 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10.06 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
10.07 – Mexico City, MX @ Vive Cuervo Salon
10.08 – Mexico City, MX @ Vive Cuervo Salon
10.09 – Guadalajara, MX @ Teatro Estudio Cavaret
10.11 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
10.12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
10.13 – New Orleans @ LA, One-Eyed Jacks
10.14 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
10.15 – Dallas, TX @ The LOFT at the Palladium
10.16 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s Outside
10.19 – Los Angeles @ CA, The Music Box at Fonda
10.20 – San Francisco @ CA, Great American Music Hall
10.23 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
10.24 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
10.27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10.28 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10.29 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
10.30 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
10.31 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa