Vacations Cover Kylie Minogue Classic For Spotify Singles

Newcastle indie rock band Vacations has taken to the Spotify Singles series, joining the ranks alongside prestigious Aussie artists like Spacey Jane and Peach PRC to produce a one-of-one cover of Kylie Minogue’s 2000s hit Love At First Sight. 

The cover follows Vacations’ third full length project No Place Like Home at the beginning of this year, a project which Beat Magazine said “brings forth a clear vision and a newfound emotional depth”. The album’s lead single Next Exit is an upbeat, guitar-led track that came together while the band were on their first sold-out US tour in 2022. On the track, lead vocalist Campbell Burns said: “The idea sat with me for a few months, and I’d keep revisiting it, trying to see if I could interpret something new. There was one session where everything clicked. Songwriting is therapeutic in that sense, sometimes I don’t entirely understand it, and I need to just sit with it for a moment to take it all in,“

“Conceptually, it takes on the idea of being stuck in a loop of repetitive behaviour. Feeling stagnant and unsure of the future ahead. You could easily draw this to us as a band navigating COVID, or on a more personal level with relationships between friends or romantic partners. I always like the idea of multiple interpretations. You can have your own meaning, and I can have mine. Together, we still connect over the music.”

Fans of Vacations are more than familiar with the band’s ability to make songs authentically their own given their cover of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up for triple j’s Like A Version earlier this year. The band turned Minogue’s pop banger into an 80s-synth pop/indie rock fusion track for Spotify Singles. With driving electric guitar, and Campbell’s dominating vocals, the reimagined song feels both nostalgic and fresh at the same time.

While recording at Spotify Studios in LA, Vacations’ guitarist Nate Delizzotti explained the motivations behind choosing this song as their cover, coining it as “'one of the best songs in the world”. He said: “We’re trying to pay homage to the cover but it's inevitably going to be different because of our respective playing styles, our own influences.”

Alongside the cover, the band performed a country-inspired rendition of their own song Midwest, also taken off of No Place Like Home.

The Spotify Singles series launched in 2016 with a valued plan to record two songs from an array of artists in their in-house studio – one song being a cover and the other being an original. While we’ve been fed incredibly well this year by the hands of Vacations, their Spotify Singles are just enough to buy us over before we can hear more music from the band in the near future.

Listen to Vacations’ Spotify Singles featuring Love At First Sight and Midwest on all streaming platforms now.