Great Vacation!
Studio album by
Sleeping in the Aviary
ReleasedNovember 30, 2010 (2010-11-30)
GenreIndie rock, garage pop
Length38:42
LabelScience of Sound
Sleeping in the Aviary chronology
Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel
(2008)		 Great Vacation!
(2010)		 You and Me, Ghost
(2011)

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]

Style

Great 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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
WGTB(favorable)[7]

Track listing

  1. YMCA (No, Not That One)
  2. Weightlessly in Love
  3. You Don't Have to Drive
  4. Maria's Ghost
  5. Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship
  6. Blacked-Out Fun
  7. Nothing
  8. Axes Ground Looth Tooth
  9. Start the Car
  10. The Very Next Day I Died

References

  1. ↑ Swensson, Andrea (6 January 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary premiere trilogy of music videos". Citypages.
  2. ↑ Steinhoff, Jessica (24 November 2010). "MadTracks: 'Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship' by Sleeping in the Aviary (video)". Isthmus.
  3. ↑ Staff (6 October 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary - "So Lonely" / "Talking Out of Turn" Videos (PopMatters Premiere)". PopMatters.
  4. 1 2 Downing, Andy (3 January 2011). "'Great Vacation!' short-lived for Sleeping in the Aviary". The Capital Times.
  5. ↑ Lelutiu, Nadia (12 April 2011). "Sleeping in the Aviary: no birds, just animalistic human behavior". Creative Loafing Atlanta.
  6. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Great Vacation! Review". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Ani (12 November 2010). "Review: Sleeping in the Aviary, Great Vacation!". WGTB.
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