Dani by VACACIONES

During the last years, there was a lack of excitement in the Spanish indie pop scene. For some time there were no bands to bring some freshness and sheer fun to the sometimes predictable and too serious pop daily grind. This situation was changed radically when young new bands like METEOSAT or LOS FRESONES REBELDES -both of them have released a single in Elefant, by the way- which contributed to freshen the stufiness of Spanish indieland by using teeny vocals, amateur guitars and tons of good humour, with some references to some of the best Spanish pop acts of the 80´s and 90´s . These bands were really appealing to a new generation of listeners that attended to all their gigs and then ran to their bedrooms to start doing fanzines or writing songs. And that´s how a legion of new, exciting bands turned up: TCR, LA MONJA ENANA, NIZA...

VACACIONES -that´s the Spanish for “holidays”- are also part of this new thing. Angel (bass), Jose Alberto (drums), Rafa (guitar), Ruth and Encarna (vocals) present us a handful of songs full of charm and naïveté. Though this has been their very first recording in a studio, they have managed to preserve all the freshness and innocence that filled their demo tape. They are not great musicians, but thanks to their enthusiasm they sound really endearing from the very first moment. They love THE CARDIGANS, VELOCETTE, LE MANS, that is, happy, jingle jangle pop full of sunny guitars and sweet girlie vocals.

4 delicious treats, one of them sung in Italian and the rest in Spanish, including a lovely rendition of the sadly departed HEAVENLY - “Cool Guitar Boy”, here “Cool Groupie Boy”- that will turn the gloomiest winter afternoon into a festival of colours and smiles.

Vacaciones are an indiepop band from Murcia (Spain) with singles and albums released on Elefant Records, Hurrah!, Discos de Kirlian, Discos de Paseo and Discos Imprescindibles.

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