Vacations to Release Pursuit of Anything

Vacations’ Pursuit of Anything will be released on October 2 through Nettwerk. The album follows the group’s 2024 release No Place Like Home and was recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Sydney.

Campbell Burns says the version of the group from 10 years ago did not have the life experience to make this album. He says every instrument and arrangement on the record was used to serve a specific emotion. Burns cites Sly and the Family Stone, Beach Boys, Weyes Blood and Beach Fossils’ Somersault among the music that helped shape the album.

The closing ballad Lucky Forever was inspired by Jake Johnson and Joseph Van Lier’s wedding. I See Myself in You came from a conversation Burns had with his family in Sydney, while Holy Grail addresses Vacations’ cycle of making albums and touring. Burns also recalls hearing Kerry King play Slayer’s Raining Blood at a festival in Melbourne several years ago.

After completing Pursuit of Anything, Burns says he wants to write more music. He is collecting one-minute ideas for what he calls the next Vacations album.