No Vacation is a San Francisco based indie pop group, much like my first blog about summer salt. No Vacation also has a feeling of old surf-rock and silky vocals that really make a person feel calm yet give an upbeat mood in the air when listing to them. As I saw them perform, it gave me a nostalgic, surf-pop sound that emitted a sensation that made me feel like I was walking at the beach in summer weather. Due the COVID-19, I wasn’t able to see them perform for the second time due to all live performance’s being canceled or postponed. However, I thought it would be a good idea to share my experience at the first live performance and my thoughts on the band when I saw them a year ago.
This upcoming band called No Vacation really surprised me with their use of well balanced sounds, bass lines with soft melodies, gentle guitar strums, and warm pop vocals. I’ve listened to their music before and I was ready to watch them live. As I went inside the venue and the show started I was utterly surprised. Honestly the showmen ship was great! They got the crowd to interact and was not like any other pop show. Nothing against pop shows, but usually at a pop show they’re very high priestess about the crowd and not very expressive or not really interactive with the audience. However, that wasn’t the case with No Vacation, they really put on a genuine show with an amazing audience to back them up. Like I said before, this indie pop band uses creative soft and gentle songs however they were able to turn these gentle songs into an exciting, heart racing event.
“Phasing” is No Vacation’s latest album. You can tell the effort the band put into the album by just listening to it. “Phasing” shows an instrumentally dynamic, multi genre rush that calls on the sounds of 90’s alternative rock, pop, and soothing melodies. Opening with the track “Estrangers” this song is filled with the violin and synth bells that balance the sharpness of the guitar and the band as a whole. The second song, “Changes,” is my favorite track of the whole EP. The guitar riffs and the instrumental buildup makes the song sound superb. It’s definitely one of those songs I can dance to, study to, and cry to all at the same time. As I listen to this album, I think about how much the band has progressed with their music and how the direction of their music style is growing on a new and exciting level.
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