I Was Bikini

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a download code for 13 songs! Vacations is the new project from Jeremy Bolen, lead singer/songwriter of Chin Up Chin Up.

"I Was Bikini" b/w "But Rain Afraid". Vacations make a sound that, amidst all the buzzwords and hype-machines, serves to remind you that music is the ultimate meme. It is what you make it and how you choose to let people hear it. So staying true to what it once inherently meant to be an independent band, Vacations decided to forego what is now the obvious band routine. The pattern of "make an album, make someone put it out and make it sell" is not for them. They've retreated to the DIY roots that about in the songs they're creating, but haven't left the present tense behind. They brought it all back home.

Vacations was conceived while Bobby, Greg, and Jeremy were wandering around Europe somewhere, on tour with their old band Chin Up Chin Up. They decided it'd be fun to try to start a new band without any guitar. The group they came up with is damn near the realization of that dream. They're not completely devoid of or anti-guitar, but it certainly isn't the heart of the matter anymore like it's been for most of their musical lives. Ukulele, kalimba and karimba (those are both types of African thumb pianos) are the sonic bread and butter for a band that has no real place on the map globally.