The word "vacation" is truly magical. Its mere mention prompts the sulky teenager's voice to rise by octaves. High-powered professionals are motivated by the word to trade their treasured workaholism for unflattering skimpy trunks (which are invariably red). However, there comes a point when excessive summer lazing becomes a taxing ordeal.
Having worked with the likes of Peaches, Feist and Jamie Lidell, Canadian-born musician Dominic Salole, better known as Mocky, clearly has no time for vacations. This might explain his failure to recognise that an Extended Vacation has the potential to bore one to the brink of insanity.
The track kicks off in a breezy, electro-chilltastic manner, much like the first few days of summer. However, once you’ve heard the first 30 seconds, you've heard the whole thing. The playful funkiness soon disintegrates into asinine repetitiveness. It's not long before you feel like you're on a guided tour where they won't let you get off the bus.
Given Mocky's impressive collaborative efforts with other artists, this one is a little disappointing. But at the very least, Extended Vacation may serve to cure our post-summer blues by reminding us that we may not actually have had a very good summer. In fact, the last Bank Holiday weekend was much more eventful.
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