Mickey Sunshine, Vacation, Dana, Whippets

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Jamie Morrison

A close-up of the band Vacation.

Vacation

Cincinnati’s Vacation has proven one of the most interestingly eclectic rock bands of the last decade and a half. Their sound can range from fuzzy punk to shimmering pop to odd experiments, but it’s just about always earworm-inducing no matter what they are up to. A new album, Rare Earth, is on the way in May, their first since the excellently crunching Existential Risks and Returns from 2021. With Cincinnati tourmates Dana and local faves Mickey Sunshine and Whippets. It's night one of No Coasting Fest, which continues April 13 at the Crystal Corner.

media release: Vacation has announced they are teaming up with Feel It Records to release a new LP. The upcoming album is called “Rare Earth” and it will be out on May 3.

Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. Rare Earth is an album that exists on account of this fact; lyrically and sonically in meditation of it. It’s an album that evokes at once the ominous churning of the Bizarros, the drone & dirge of Screaming Urge, and the melodic cushion of the Replacements’ tender years. Nine albums into their discography, Vacation remain true to shrill atmospheric ambience in tribute to Pere Ubu while retaining the hard-edged accessibility that was signed, sealed, and delivered to sensitive degenerates by the likes of the Ramones and Guided By Voices. Rare Earth delivers all of this in a uniquely sparkling package; almost tactile in relation to their live experience. It’s this Cincinnati power-quartet’s most explosive album yet, out Spring 2024 on Feel It Records. -Amos Pitsch (Dusk, Tenement)