Great Vacation! is the third studio album by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based band Sleeping in the Aviary, released on November 30, 2010 on Science of Sound Records. In January 2011, the band released a trilogy of music videos made for three of the album's songs: "Y.M.C.A. (No Not That One)", "Maria's Ghost", and "Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship".[1] The video for "Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship" had originally been released in November 2010, shortly before the album itself was released.[2]
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| Released | November 30, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, garage pop | |||
| Length | 38:42 | |||
| Label | Science of Sound | |||
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Style
editGreat Vacation! is somewhat more soul-influenced than Sleeping in the Aviary's previous albums,[3] and features an increased emphasis on polished melodies.[4] Many of the album's lyrics are about surreal topics, and almost all of them are about love.[4] Sleeping in the Aviary frontman Elliott Kozel has called the album “a gooey exploration of spine-tingling animalistic human behavior.”[5]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| WGTB | (favorable)[7] |
Track listing
edit- YMCA (No, Not That One)
- Weightlessly in Love
- You Don't Have to Drive
- Maria's Ghost
- Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship
- Blacked-Out Fun
- Nothing
- Axes Ground Looth Tooth
- Start the Car
- The Very Next Day I Died
References
edit- ^ Swensson, Andrea (6 January 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary premiere trilogy of music videos". Citypages.
- ^ Steinhoff, Jessica (24 November 2010). "MadTracks: 'Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship' by Sleeping in the Aviary (video)". Isthmus.
- ^ Staff (6 October 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary - "So Lonely" / "Talking Out of Turn" Videos (PopMatters Premiere)". PopMatters.
- ^ a b Downing, Andy (3 January 2011). "'Great Vacation!' short-lived for Sleeping in the Aviary". The Capital Times.
- ^ Lelutiu, Nadia (12 April 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary: no birds, just animalistic human behavior". Creative Loafing Atlanta.[dead link]
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "Great Vacation! Review". AllMusic.
- ^ Ani (12 November 2010). "Review: Sleeping in the Aviary, Great Vacation!". WGTB. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.