(album art: Carolina) Mark Chen, Aaron Kovacs, and Matt Gomez played music together for half a decade under the name Summer Vacation. In 2014, that band parted ways with guitarist/vocalist Sean Arenas, and changed their name to Winter Break. The tongue-in-cheek name is no surprise – Summer Vacation (and hence Winter Break) is a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously, boasting lyrics as diverse as "all praise the joys of masturbation" and "when I'm alone I want to die" and songs that were above all, fun. SV played a style of pop-punk that was informed by dissonant emo and [...]