| Great Vacation! | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Sleeping in the Aviary |
| Cover: | Great Vacation!.jpg |
| Genre: | Indie rock, garage pop |
| Label: | Science of Sound |
| Prev Title: | Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | You and Me, Ghost |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
Great Vacation! is the third studio album by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based band Sleeping in the Aviary, released on November 30, 2010 on Science of Sound Records. In January 2011, the band released a trilogy of music videos made for three of the album's songs: "Y.M.C.A. (No Not That One)", "Maria's Ghost", and "Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship".[1] The video for "Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship" had originally been released in November 2010, shortly before the album itself was released.[2]
Great Vacation! is somewhat more soul-influenced than Sleeping in the Aviary's previous albums,[3] and features an increased emphasis on polished melodies. Many of the album's lyrics are about surreal topics, and almost all of them are about love.[4] Sleeping in the Aviary frontman Elliott Kozel has called the album “a gooey exploration of spine-tingling animalistic human behavior.”[5]