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Mac DeMarco is back, but not in the way you’d expect! The slacker indie icon is returning with a fully instrumental album, Five Easy Hot Dogs, offering no teasers or tasters until the main event lands on January 20th. 

And it sounds like it was a journey to make. Recorded fully on the road as Mac set out on an epic roadtrip, aiming to connect with as many fans and friends as possible, it was built up in motel rooms and in random living rooms. Talking about the trip, he said: “Some places I stayed longer in than others, some of them I knew from the past, others not so much. I tried to keep things busy all the time. If I didn’t know what was up in a city, I’d just walk around ‘til someone recognized me and go from there. I met a lot of interesting people this way, and had a bunch of cool experiences.”

“The nature of ripping around and recording and travelling in this manner doesn’t lend well to sitting around and planning or thinking about what it was that I was setting out to do. I didn’t ever have a sound in mind, or a theme or anything, I would just start recording. Luckily the collection of recordings from this period all shake hands, they have a present musical identity as a whole. I was in it while I was in it, and this is what came out of it, just the way it was.”

We can’t wait to hear the outcome!

Five Easy Hot Dogs Tracklist

1. Gualala
2. Gualala 2
3. Crescent City
4. Portland
5. Portland 2
6. Victoria
7. Vancouver
8. Vancouver 2
9. Vancouver 3
10. Edmonton
11. Edmonton 2
12. Chicago 1
13. Chicago 2
14. Rockaway

Five Easy Hot Dogs arrives January 20th

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More about: Mac DeMarco