The Vines Essentials

The Vines Essentials

Even as they roared from some grimy Sydney shed back in '01, the wheels were deliciously loose on the runaway train called the Vines. Highly Evolved was a spring-loaded grunge-psychedelic salvo that swiped the covers of the NME and Rolling Stone en route to major chart action in the UK and US. But the headline-grabbing tantrums of wildcard frontman Craig Nicholls proved a mixed blessing as the band fragmented with the ironically titled Winning Days. A fresh start with Melodia brought the Vines back to pub-level potency in '08 and the 22-track sprawl of album six, Wicked Nature, bolstered Nicholls' cred as a tenacious indie rock maverick in 2014.

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