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Notes
- Chomps, our meat stick of choice.
- “I Need NOURISHMENT” (start ~1:13)
- Vacationer LPs prior to Cherish:
- Michael mentioned Mindset’s “Companionship” is coincidentally positioned as a narrative “lead in” for Cherish.
- Official Cherish documentary, from which we referenced many times throughout the record, including…
- Kenny: “I was listening to a ton of Bill Evans while making this record”
- Kenny: “What matters to me is being up here making inarguably beautiful music”
- Kenny: “If there’s anything that I want to improve on myself it’s really showing the people that I appreciate how much I appreciate them, and that’s kind of the story of this record.”
- Producing Credits thus far:
- Gone & Relief
- Matthew Young
- Grant Wheeler
- Mindset
- Principle Producer: Daniel Schlett
- Co-Producers: Includes Matthew Young, Grant Wheeler, and Kenny Vasoli
- Wavelengths
- Kenny Vasoli (though notably and arguably this is a Vacationer record in name only, and feels more as an instrumental-only side project)
- Cherish
- Kenny Vasoli (first “true” Vacationer record as the sole producer!)
- Michael found the Cherish’s warm, soft art direction to be reminiscent of the color grading used in Spike Jonze’s Her.
- Feng Shui
- AT-LP120, what appears to Marc’s eyes to be the turntable model featured in the album art (which just so happens to also be his personal turntable, as well).
- The LP Environments - new concepts in stereo sound • Disk 1 (a small collection of ambient nature sounds) is featured prominently in Cherish’s album art and happens to sport a cover design strikingly similar to Cherish’s, hmmmm…
- Last Bison’s Quill, whose production ethos Michael found similar to Cherish (that being, “blemishes” and all were included)
- Carpenters, which Marc & Michael noticed had some similarities to Cherish (similar short length, similar message in the last track, similarly intimate). See their discussion at length on that record in Episode 21.
- Kenny’s Tweet, including a clip from the “Love & Mercy” biopic on Brian Wilson and Kenny saying “Writing lyrics for the new songs…”
- “I can’t go back in time! We’re not surfers, we never have been, and real surfers don’t dig our music anyway. Okay, I can’t write about summer, and fun and summer and summer and fun and cars! I got different stuff inside me, I gotta get it out.”
- Paul Dano, the actor bringing life to “past” Brian in the clip
- Marc found “Entertainment” fit a similar narrative and instrumental role that Father John Misty’s “Leaving LA” did on Pure Comedy. Check out our full discussion on that record in Episode 12.
- Brett & Kate McKay’s “Twenty Lessons From Twenty Years of Marriage”, which Michael found had similar ethos to “Comforter”.
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