Two Year Vacation

Expedition: Nowhere.

Contradictory to its name the expedition to Nowhere started during the summer of 2021 when Two Year Vacation escaped society and set off deep into the Swedish wilderness to a place truly like nowhere else in this world - legendary “Silence Studios”.

Cut off from the world the five feel good junkies made their two weeks visit feel like most of the summer in the studio together; BBQing, recording, swimming in the lake and enjoying each others company. The environment and the presence of recording artists before them led the way towards, simultaneous nowhere and everywhere. While standing still and also moving forward something magical happened in that house, deep in the Swedish wilderness.

What was caught on those recordings, the little bit of that magic during that expedition, is what made the embryos for the Swedes now finalized new album "Expedition Nowhere”.

”Expedition Nowhere” is album about traveling north while using your clock as a compass. About going on a mission without knowing where you're going or what you're doing. About being absolutely convinced about something but not knowing what that is.

Traveling through songs about confessions, childhood, hopes, upbringings, companionship, simplicity, complexity, home and of course love ”Expedition Nowhere” encapsulates the naive adventurous spirit to explore the unknown without moving an inch. A mind set truly fitting no-one else as much as the members of Two Year Vacation.

"Expedition Nowhere" will be available April 14th 2023 digitally, on vinyl and on CD. Slices cut from the expedition will be released throughout the fall and winter. Everything from Cloud Hill Label.

The singles as well as the full album can be experienced here below.

Biography

Two Year Vacation is the band that originates from its own contrast. The quintet which is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden's second city, a seaport known for its rain, headwind and grayness, makes rhythmic radio-friendly feel good indie pop.

With inspiration from trivial daily routines and dreams they music which travels in and through a fascinating blend of Italo disco, rock and Caribbean kraut with easygoing joyful rhythms wrapped in a tropical vibe. Musically the influences range from ABBA to Fatboy Slim through early Daft Punk, MGMT, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and Peter Björn & John.

Opposite to Swedish international pop songwriters Two Year Vacation isn’t about smacking you in the face with sensation, but sending you a postcard inviting you to dance along, smile and move a bit back and forth.

With a contagious charm Two Year Vacation thrives from finding the bright colors in between the tones of grey in their surroundings and is all about driving out all stale senses of the mundane.

After releasing two self-sustained EPs Two Year Vacation joined forces with the Hamburg based label Clouds Hill and Warner Music Germany. The result was the debut album ”Slacker Island” released in 2019. The album was preceded by, amongst others, the charting single ”I Forgot Your Name (But I Like You)” and was whomping up a staggering four million streams and the hearts of indie fans all around the globe.

2019 continued hecticly touring across Europe and with first performances in both the US and the UK. But Two Year Vacation never rests, even though the name may imply otherwise. 2020 early saw the release of the singles ”Don’t Know Anybody Else” and ”Never Been To Paris”, as well as the four track EP ”Bedroom Rock”, which also was the first part of their sophomore album "Laundry Day” which arrived October of 2020.

Massively supported by both radio DJs and playlist editors Laundry Day and it's releases has also been hailed by editorials dubbing the release a ”shot of indie sugar” (Bands of Tomorrow), calling it ”a direct path from the auricle to the dancing leg” (Tonspin) and labeling ”the positive impact (...) enormous” (Kraschfink). The band’s also been called ”Swedens own Vampire Weekend” (Hymn) as well as ”one of the best bands to originate from Sweden since ABBA” (Concrete Online).

2021 embarked with another piece of steller escapistic new music, the four-track EP "Getting Into Real Estate", featuring the single "Majored In Broken Hearts" which have been making waves in the indie digital sphere. The EP, being the result of locking themselves in the studio in Gothenburg during some rare extreme hot summer days, is a blended mid-pandemic inspiration and four songs about dreaming of music with a cocktail in our hands.

2022 has set forth with the EP "High Hopes / Low Expectations" which was the inception for their now forthcoming third full album "Expedition Nowhere"