Mac DeMarco, opposite to what you would possibly see on TikTok, is just not retiring. In truth, he has a brand new album on the best way. After sharing his annual vacation observe final month, DeMarco is again with information of a brand new album known as Five Easy Hot Dogs, and it’ll be out there digitally and on CD very quickly: January 20. (Vinyl will comply with in May.)
Five Easy Hot Dogs is basically instrumental, and it was recorded whereas he was road-tripping across the nation. “The plan was to start driving north, and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record,” DeMarco mentioned in a press launch. “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,” he continued. “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.”
No advance singles from the album, however the observe titles all bear the names of locations that DeMarco visited alongside the best way. Check them out under.
01 “Gualala”
02 “Gualala 2”
03 “Crescent City”
04 “Portland”
05 “Portland 2”
06 “Victoria”
07 “Vancouver”
08 “Vancouver 2”
09 “Vancouver 3”
10 “Edmonton”
11 “Edmonton 2”
12 “Chicago 1”
13 “Chicago 2”
14 “Rockaway”
Five Easy Hot Dogs is out 1/20 (digital/CD) and 5/12 (vinyl) on Mac’s Record Label. Pre-order it right here.