Vacations ProfileVacations’ international star power continues to rise, with the Australian indie-rock outfit taking over Saturday Mornings on CBS.
While performing on US television, Vacations played three songs from their latest album, Pursuit of Anything: lead single Holy Grail, as well as Ready or Not and I See Myself in You. Fellow Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lahey joined them on stage, playing the guitar and saxophone and offering backing vocals.
Check out the performances below.
The band’s latest album was released earlier this month. Pursuit of Anything follows 2022’s Forever in Bloom; it was written by the band and produced by singer and lead songwriter Campbell Burns.
Pursuit of Anything captures Vacations at a turning point as the frontman looks back on disorienting, contradictory experiences of growing up in Australia before moving to the US to chase their ambitions.
Beatriz Artola (Geese, Caamp) mixed the new album, helping the band craft a richer, more intricate, emotionally resonant collection of songs. Amid their sold-out tours and double-Platinum hits, it's a record that turns inward, focusing on self-discovery and facing tension head-on.
Explaining the album title, Burns said, “It’s about happiness as a feedback loop. How you keep chasing the next thing.”
Vacations returned to Australia in July for an intimate run of headline shows. Reviewing their show at Brisbane’s The Triffid, The Music’s Claire Dunton wrote:
They were, as we expected, worth the wait, with the guys giving us all our favourite hits from their three records.
Holy Grail, their most recent single from their forthcoming album Pursuit of Anything, was played towards the start of the show and easily slipped into the set, with the audience singing it back as if it hadn’t just been released.
The audience did not miss a beat, instantly recognising the start of each track from the instrumentals, and it felt like one of those shows where everyone was a Vacations aficionado. But alas, we still got a taste of something new.
