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Notes

Chomps, our meat stick of choice.
“I Need NOURISHMENT” (start ~1:13)
Vacationer LPs prior to Cherish:
- 2012’s Gone
- 2014’s Relief (Michael’s article)
- 2018’s Mindset (Episode 14)
- 2019’s Wavelengths
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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