The Return of the Vaselines

“The album’s got a cute title, with the double meaning of ‘check out how hot we are” and ‘hooking up again with the person you used to date.’ Almost any of these simple two-riff, verse-chorus songs would have made a perfectly acceptable addition to their original records (and they’re better than anything either Kelly or McKee has come up with since they broke up); in particular, ‘I Hate the 80’s’ is a welcome bit of grumpy oldsterism and ‘Turning It On’ is built on juicy love/hate sentiments. The band’s twanging, strummy arrangements and McKee and Kelly’s bedroom-eyed thrust-and-parry are exactly like they were the first time around.”
–Pitchfork gives the new Vaselines album, Sex With an X, a cute rating of 6.9.