Vacations Announce Pursuit of Anything

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

Campbell Burns said that the version of the group from 10 years ago did not have the life experience to make this album. After four albums and more than a decade spent learning how to make them, Burns said he trusts his instincts more. He described previous albums at times as haphazard or experimental, while saying that on Pursuit of Anything every instrument and arrangement serves a specific emotion.

The album includes songs shaped by specific experiences. Lucky Forever was inspired by Johnson and Van Lier’s wedding, while I See Myself in You came from a conversation Burns had with his family in Sydney. Holy Grail focuses on Vacations’ cycle of making albums and touring. Burns said recordings and artists including There’s a Riot Goin’ On, the Beach Boys, Weyes Blood and Somersault helped shape the album.

Burns also described Kerry King playing Slayer’s Raining Blood at a festival in Melbourne several years ago as an inspiring example. He said he wanted to write more music as soon as Pursuit of Anything was completed and is collecting one-minute ideas for the next Vacations album.