After leaving high school, Campbell Burns began writing and recording "sad boy songs" and posting them to his Tumblr account.
His friend Jake Johnson heard the tracks and the two started creating music alongside Nate Delizzotti and Joseph Van Lier,[7] forming Vacations in 2015 and gaining traction on SoundCloud and YouTube.
[8][9] In April 2022, their single "Young" from 2016 went viral from a TikTok trend, and was quickly certified gold in the United States, Canada and Poland.
[11] From September to November 2023, Vacations embarked on a 30-date co-headlining tour of North America with fellow Australian indie rock band Last Dinosaurs.
The move– as well as his diagnosis with obsessive–compulsive disorder, inspired the themes of the band's third studio album, No Place Like Home, released in January 2024.