“ When I first got back home, I felt as though I had given up on my idea and failed to finish what I was trying to do. I lasted one night and went back to Los Angeles the next day,” he says.

No other humans for probably 50 miles in any direction. “ It probably could have slept about 20 people, but instead it was just me withdrawing from nicotine with a bunch of taxidermy animals all over the place. “ I wound up picking a bunch of stuff as I went as well, trying to keep it as travel friendly as possible though.”ĭeMarco’s excursion began in California, taking him around North America before concluding with an abbreviated stay in Utah, where DeMarco had booked a cabin. “ I had my guitars with me, a bass, a weird little drum kit with a kick drum we sawed in half in Golden Gate Park, all the stands and cabling I’d need, a couple of mics, an old model D, and a TX7,” DeMarco says. If something wasn’t working, he would just keep on driving. I met a lot of interesting people this way, and had a bunch of cool experiences.”įollowing a show in the Bay Area in January of 2022, DeMarco’s plan was to stay in motels or hotels or people’s houses, and to record in these places, too. 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 tried to keep things busy all the time. “ Some places I stayed longer in than others, some of them I knew from the past, others not so much. “ Kind of like being on tour, except there weren’t any shows, and I’d just be burning money.” All of the songs on Five Easy Hot Dogs were recorded and mixed in the corresponding city from each song title, and the tracklisting reflects the chronological order in which the songs were produced. “ The plan was to start driving north, and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record,” DeMarco says of Five Easy Hot Dogs, a collection of instrumental recordings from his time on the road. Mac DeMarco has announced Five Easy Hot Dogs, his new album out January 20th (CD/digital) and May 12th (vinyl) on Mac’s Record Label.

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