Pre-orders for Five Easy Hot Dogs are now live.
Canadian indie rock stalwart Mac DeMarco has announced the release of a new album.
Five Easy Hot Dogs is noted to be an instrumental affair, crafted in the midst of a 2022 road trip across North America. Each of the album’s constituent parts are named after the city that they were recorded in and presented in the order in which they were produced.
DeMarco explains in an accompanying press release,
“The plan was to start driving north, and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record… Kind of like being on tour, except there weren’t any shows, and I’d just be burning money.
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 traveling 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.”
DeMarco’s last album Here Comes The Cowboy released in 2019 and marked his first project to release following a departure from longtime label Captured Tracks.
Five Easy Hot Dogs
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’
13 ‘Chicago 2’
14 ‘Rockaway’
Five Easy Hot Dogs releases digitally on January 20th via Mac’s Record Label. Pre-order the album on vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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