…featuring alternate versions, live recordings, and a searing cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”
The Vices belong to an increasingly rare class of band. The Dutch four-piece are hyper-competent musicians but rarely flashy. They put out music at a workmanlike pace with three albums since 2021, but are too baroque and brainy to come off as working class. They frequently work within the confines of mature, electronic-tinged rock deeply indebted to OK Computer, but they can also convincingly rock out in the mold of the Hives.
They’re the exact sort of band that used to land a single on an AAA sports videogame soundtrack or Cadillac commercial and make new fans. In other words, the Vices are modern rock music’s vanishing middle class, and their new…