Pitchfork Music Festival Paris have announced their first set of acts including Bon Iver, Mac Demarco, Blood Orange and Fever Ray for the 8th edition of the music festival which takes place at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris from November 1st to 3rd.
Three-day ticket priced at €100 are available now via digitick.com now.
Mac Demarco, the charismatic Canadian river boy with the eccentric comedic demeanour and self-proclaimed ‘bum chic’ style graced Dublin with his tight-haired presence for the first time in five years last night. It was his first gig since he played Workman’s in 2013.
Demarco’s show played it straighter than some of his other recent live shows, focusing on the music. Songs from the new album like ‘My Old Man’ were slowed down with a piano backing that imbued the songs with a nostalgic tone.
‘Freaking Out The Neighbourhood’ and ‘Cooking Up Something Good’ are clearly fan favourites and the energy was elevated as a result.
‘We haven’t played this song in over two years, so we might just completely f**k this up’ which preceded in a classic and heartfelt version of ‘Let Her Go’.
The newest member of the band, keyboard player Alec Meen experimented with his new toy harmonica for the first time for a melodic version of ‘A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes’.
Demarco sets the tone at his gigs and the crowd usually follow but last night he didn’t seem to crave high energy and playful attention.
He finished his set off with an elongated ‘Together’, coming back on stage moments after for an encore of ‘Watching Him Fade Away’ which is introduced to be about “my pops”: before asking everyone to sit on the Vicar Street floor. When the song is over he says “real recognise real”, then mic drops and walks off stage.
On the basis of last night, Mac seems to be adjusting himself with signs of him brushing off his playful and joke-filled demeanour. His new album This Old Dog released earlier this year suggested a slightly more serious tone for the 27-year-old and last night’s show in Vicar Street may be an indication of him moving further in that direction.
So we reach the halfway mark of the year and I present to you a list of my 25 most-played and enjoyed records of the year so far. Songs to follow.
25.
Sir Was – Digging A Tunnel
This debut album from the Swedish musician Joel Wästberg reminds me of Caribou, Bibio and Paul White. Digging A Tunnel weaves hip-hop rhythms, soul, jazz, pastoral folk, bagpipe and harmonica samples, handclaps, clarinets and sax. It’s all in the mix, resulting in an textured album of polychromatic exploration. If Beck was from Gothenburg and still making music in a lo-fi way perhaps.
Perennial New York dance-punk party band !!! (chk chk chk) can be relied on to bring the looped sample disco punk-funk rhythms and their seventh album recorded at their studio in Brooklyn doesn’t deviate too much from their established pattern, except in the vocal department where a rotating cast of female singers bring the heat including Lea Lea, Meah Pace, Nicole Fayu, Cameron Mesirow (Glasser) and Molly Schnick. Throw shade and shake the shudder away.
Favourite tracks: ‘Dancing Is The Best Revenge’, ‘The one 2’, ‘NRGQ’.
English producer Matthew Barnes releases his first Forest Sword album of textured electronic instrumentals (with sampled vocals) in 4 years. There’s a sound world vibe to the release, as if it was constructed to soundtrack to an imaginary place, removed from linear time. Remember that old PC game – Myst? Compassion feels like it could work as an alternative soundtrack to that world. That makes sense, Barnes recently composed music for the Assassin’s Creed game an is planning multidisciplinary projects in dance, performance, film and music to augment this album.
Katie Stelmanis’ third album as Austra feels looser than her previous work, and despite the title, more human. The operatic synth-pop is still very much there and the politics of the title feels rooted in the personal.
Arriving four years after their debut, Come On Live Long’s In The Still reaffirms the talent of a band who deserver more public awareness. The album, recorded mostly, while the band were living apart is a cohesive whole. When they came together, so did the album. So there’s trip-hop indie (‘For The Birds’), heart-beat atmospherics (‘In The Still’), a glacial trip (‘Peak), minimal folk (‘My Love Leaves’) and Radiohead-esque guitar work (‘Slipstream’). In The Still is sonics for the soul. To quote the band themselves on ‘For The Birds’, “stay together, fall apart, move as one?” They chose the latter.
20.
SZA – CTRL
A late addition to the highlights of the year, I’ve been waiting on SZA to release something substantial since that Chance The Rapper feature in 2014. And CTRL far surpasses expectations. It’s an album that feels real, complicated, struggling with self-esteem, a sense of self, making mistakes, cheating, being hurt, wanting to be loved, shunning intimacy, yearning for respect. It’s human as can be and one of the best R&B albums of the year. More time will be spent with SZA in 2017.
This New Zealand artist’s John Parish-produced album for 4AD is a particular weighty listen. There shades of vintage alt-folk, orchestral ballads and intense singer-songwriter confessionals. ‘Party’ lulls you in with a lustful touch and dependence, Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas contributes on subtle torch song ‘Imagining My Man’ while the close-mic finger-pick of ‘I’m So Sorry’ and the outward sustained notes of ‘Horizon’ are highlights. This is an intimate journey from an artist who feels on the cup of something bigger.
The New-York singer-songwriter Julie Byrne is known for ethereal folk music and her new second album Not Even Happiness is a calming listen of gentle folk and ambient textures.
Swedish electronic poppers Little Dragon have often struggled over full-length albums. There are always killer tracks on their releases but they lacked over a longer running time. Season High, is their most substantial and long-playing album yet.
Taking her cues from her label boss Daniel Avery in one hand, the UK producer Kelly-Lee Owens’ album’s sound is dominant with pulsing synths and techno percussion on songs like ‘Evolution’, ‘CBM’ (colour, beauty and motion as a schematic feels apt) and ‘Arthur’. On the other hand, there’s a deep ethereality in her songs a her repeating vocal lines work like mantras across the tracks including ‘Arthur’ and the slow synth-pop of ‘Keep Walking’. Elsewhere it’s the methodical chug of John Talabot that is conjured on ‘Lucid’ and ‘Bird’ and Jenny Hval guests on ‘Anxi’.
The debut album from The Internet’s Syd. It feels like a long time since she was behind the decks at Odd Future gigs. Continuing the intimate sensual modern R&B feel of The Internet, Fin is the beginning as opposed to a logical end. Syd steps out in front and while she’s been downplaying the album’s status in her career (“This album is not that deep, but I feel like this is my descent into the depth I want the band to get to.”), there are few people making tender close-up R&B that swings low and stays high as this.
A recent album of the week, Bonobo’s sixth album is nomadic & intimate, open-minded and expansive drawing on his ambient chill trademark and tougher almost clubbier sounds with guest vocals from Hundred Waters, Nick Murphy, Rhye and Morrocco’s Innov Gnawa.
2017 was my third visit to Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival and my first since 2011. What has changed in that time is an increase of punters (around 35,000 each night) but also an expanded festival site at Parc del Forum. That meant more room for dance music and more room for the larger stages. And more, room for surprises.
2017’s lineup was also one of the best in a long time. Sure, Frank Ocean cancelled his headline set with two weeks to go but the addition of surprise sets announced on the day were a new thing which hopefully the organisers will commit to in 2018. It meant that for many the first surprise was Arcade Fire playing a gig on the festival’s first night, two days before they were due on stage. Haim played a late-night set on the last night and Mogwai debuted their new album in full under the Barcelona evening sun.
The city is a great setting for a festival getaway, hang out on the beach day or night at Barceloneta, eat and drink in the Gothic Quarter or Gracia, solicit late-night cans from the abundant hawking men on the streets, bump into friends late into the night while wandering. Primavera Sound’s late starting time (for most about 7pm or 8pm) and late end time (6am is not uncommon) means there’s always time to explore the city in good weather before the music starts.
That doesn’t mean that you don’t miss things though. Aldous Harding, Glass Animals, Joy Orbison, Weyes Blood and Badbadnotgood were not seen, and I decided to give Arcade Fire a miss in favour of seeing something else (and was rewarded by John Talabot’s disco set). Ditto: Sinkane, Skepta and Grace Jones. Sets from the xx, Angel Olsen and King Krule didn’t do it for me despite wanting them to but there was plenty to love. Primavera Sound pulls you in so many directions that sometimes you just have to not focus too much on the timetable and go with the flow. That’s easier to do in the Catalan city atmosphere than a soggy field in Ireland. I’d definitely come back for a fourth visit.
Here are my highlight sets of the festival.
1.
Mac Demarco
There’s no way that such subtle sweet jams should work on the second biggest stage on the festival, , but that’s Mac Demarco for you. The Canadian has developed as a cult curio personality, an indie-kid weirdo but as his latest album This Old Dog (fast becoming one of my favourites of the year) has shown, his songs seep into your skin. At Primavera, there was a big crowd ready to lap up both his tunes and his vibe. When the camera panned over the stage to reveal his naked drummer on the drum stool, it was clear it was going to be one of those kinds of sets. While the stage antics got increasingly more attention as Demarco stripped down to his underpants and singed his butt and underarm hair while standing on a guitar amp, the tunes never faltered from some sweet vibes (other than a closing guitar solo). Don’t underestimate how hard it is to write delicate songs this good, the stage show with added “Whitney crowd surf experience” and goofball antics only added to the sense of occasion. As did, Demarco ending the night crowdsurfing sans music stage right after his set.
2.
John Talabot Disco set
I decided to give Arcade Fire a miss this time to go see something different. The Catalan man John Talabot has always had a close association to Primavera as they asked him to debut his first ever live show at the festival so he always does something at it. This time around, it was two shows, one with Axel Boman as Talaboman and one DJ set billed as a disco set (after a great Young Marco set) which ended up being a set that featured crowdpleasing and disco-tinged music from classics like ‘Spacer’ to Aphex Twin ‘Windowlicker’ edit, Red Dragon Band’s ‘Let Me Be Your Radio’ to his own Teengirl Fantasy ‘Cheaters’ remix and my tune discovery of the festival – Akiyo’s Deboule. An edit of the Carribean Zouk tune from 1996 was played in the Talaboman set on the first night and immediately wired itself into my brain. Watch out for that (and let me know if you see one going). Talabot’s disco set was filled with the one thing that many modern DJs forget to pack on their USBS – fun.
3.
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus reaffirmed my opinion of him as a visionary producer with his live cube A/V set on the Ray Bans stage on Friday night. At 3am, the combination of Strangeloop and Timeboy’s mindbending visuals and Fly Lo’s mind-altering music productions hit with force and bass so hard that in the middle of the crowd, near the front, the bass made the hair on the top of my head vibrate. It was that good. Musically, we had some of the new stuff, like the Kuso theme (the reviews have said it’s garbage), his Freddie Mercury remix, his Twin Peaks rework, his To Pimp A Butterfly production, his Kendrick feature ‘Never Catch Me’, a Captain Murphy joint and his Los Angeles material. It was a reminder of how great a Fly Lo set can be.
4.
Bon Iver
This took me by surprise. 22 A Million is a hard album to love and it didn’t really impact my listening habits last year very much. It was easier to admire and harder to love. But fair play to Justin and his band who have managed to translate this obfuscated object of coded language into a main stage extravaganza that pitched these songs with a larger stature, accompanied by superb sound and a stage show that featured the album’s hieroglyphics in cascading form. The album’s second half – songs like ‘666’ and the Springsteen-esque ‘8’ were late show highlights and four songs from 2011’s self-titled album. He might have spent much of the gig with giant headphones and a baseball cap on behind a bank of gear but a solo a capella version of ‘Skinny Love’ as encore nodded to the the journey Vernon has been on since 2008. It’s a significant one.
5.
Solange
The classiest stage show of the weekend went to Solange Knowles. A simple circle backdrop bathed in red with blue lights on the band and singers pitched things minimally. Translating a weighty but delicately produced album such as A Seat At The Table is a tough thing to do but Solange kept things focused and wisely brought in the energetic ‘Some Things Never Seem to Fucking Work’, ‘T.O.N.Y’ (from her 2008 Sol-Angel and the Hadley Dreams album) and career highlight jam ‘Losing You’. Occasional choreographed moves benefitted the show in subtle ways too. It was more a swaying side-to-side experience but it suited her.
6.
Aphex Twin
There was a run of abrasive shows on the opening night of Primavera Sound in 2017 that featured sets from Slayer, Converge, Death Grips (always excellent) and Aphex Twin. A Richard D James show is like no other and he really took advantage of playing the biggest stage at the festival to deliver an uncompromising two hour set filled with diversions into ten minutes of industrial white noise, acid techno, ambient noise, gyrating IDM , jungle breakbeats and electro weirdness. There wasn’t much to recognise unless you were an uber-Aphex nerd but he did play ‘Roy Of The Ravers’ at one point and one tune that sounded like MIA mashed up, smashed into a reggaeton beat and spat out. Visually, the show was crammed with small screens working in unison, and lights and lasers that extended beyond the festival site. His trick of using the faces in the crowd to project AFX imagery and faces makes the audience an integral part of the show, playing on the discomfort of lingering on someone in the front row’s self-conscious face for far too long to create some truly odd art. In fact, it was so intense I couldn’t last the whole show. How many artists can you say that about? No-one delivers a disorientating experience quite like Aphex Twin.
7.
Bicep
At 4:30am on the first night, Belfast duo Bicep played their live show which served as a slighty beefier version of their live sets naturally all focused on their own material and delivered with the precision and percussive panache that have made Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar house stalwarts. A run of songs including ‘Just’ , ‘Higher Level’ , ‘In Yer Face’ , ‘Dahlia’ sent us home with grins on night one, eager for more from evening two.
8.
Sampha
Sampha’s piano torch songs don’t feel like a natural fit for a large festival stage but the dude’s been preparing. With three band members helping him build the beats, Sampha Sisay brought some dynamic energy to his set. There was a circle of a drum-off at one point and songs like ‘Blood On Me’, his Drake-feature ‘4422’ and ‘Reverse Faults’ stood out until he was left to deliver the heartbreaking ode to his mother – ‘(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano’.
9.
Run the Jewels
You know the drill by now. We Are the Champions. Two Best Friends. Fists and chains in the air. A Blockbuster Night. El-P and Killer Mike’s on-stage camaraderie isn’t even punctured or affected when the entire soundsystem goes dead for 10 minutes, as they mug to each other and run on the spot. A RTJ show is one of the best in rap and it hasn’t dissipated as the size of the stage has increased.
10.
!!!
What encapsulates the differentiation between Primavera and many other festivals is that the closing set of the festival on the only large stage left open went to !!! (Chk Chk Chk). The band encapsulate the festival’s early beginnings as a punk-funk rock band into their current guise as a strutting electronic disco act. Primavera know all you need to do is give !!! the stage and they’ll slay and that’s what they do close to 5am bolstered by the presence of Wnglish vocalist Lea Lea on co-vocals and ass-shaking along with Nic Offer upfront. With their seventh album Shake The Shudder just out, much of the set was drawn from that but two personal favourites ‘Freedom 15’ and ‘Syld’ closed out the show.
Paper Trail Records have put together a compilation of unreleased music from artists like Mac Demarco, Priests, LVL UP, Squarehead, Robocobra Quartet, Slow Skies and more in aid of the Abortion Support Network in Ireland and to highlight the need for choice in Ireland around abortion.
Every sale goes directly to The Abortion Support Network through Paypal, so you can be assured that your donations are being put to good use.
I find it so strange that we have to fight for basic human rights for the women of our country. As a man, I feel that I shouldn’t have the right to answer this hugely important question on behalf of women, but ultimately we will support the cause however we can, because the women of Ireland deserve the right to choose – Roy Duffy, Squarehead
Tracklisting:
1: Mac Demarco – Without Me (Live) 2: Hot Cops – Weight 3: Squarehead – Ignorance 4: LVL UP – Proven Water Rights (Remix) 5: Beach Moon/Peach Moon – Cut Ties 6: Deer Scout – House 7: Participant – Leave Me Here (Acoustic) 8: CLBCLB – Dreaming in Solitaire 9: Priests – JJ (Live) 10: Oh Boland – Grass Wall 11: Robocobra Quartet – You’ll Shrug (Live) 12: Leapling – To Be Kind (Demo) 13: Katie Dey – Battery (Demo) 14: Just Mustard – Television (Remix) 15: Dexter R – Soy 16: Slow Skies – Anything More 17: Hand Habits – Scald
You’re very likely already at least five listens deep to this album seeing as it came out a couple of weeks ago but I couldn’t let my recommended album post pass without a nod to the Canadian king of slacker indie-pop, whose albums rarely deviate but which offer immense comfort in its meandering and superbly-written arrangements . DeMarco is a better songwriter than his reputation suggests and This Old Dog is proof.
Favourite tracks: ‘For The First Time’, ‘My Old Man’, ‘Baby You’re Out’
This New Zealand artist’s John Parish-produced album for 4AD is a particular weighty listen. There shades of vintage alt-folk, orchestral ballads and intense singer-songwriter confessionals. ‘Party’ lulls you in with a lustful touch and dependence, Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas contributes on subtle torch song ‘Imagining My Man’ while the close-mic finger-pick of ‘I’m So Sorry’ and the outward sustained notes of ‘Horizon’ are highlights. This is an intimate journey from an artist who feels on the cup of something bigger.
Favourite tracks: ‘Party’, ‘Imagining My Man’, ‘Horizon’.
Perennial New York dance-punk party band !!! (chk chk chk) can be relied on to bring the looped sample disco punk-funk rhythms and their seventh album recorded at their studio in Brooklyn doesn’t deviate too much from their established pattern, except in the vocal department where a rotating cast of female singers bring the heat including Lea Lea, Meah Pace, Nicole Fayu, Cameron Mesirow (Glasser) and Molly Schnick. Throw shade and shake the shudder away.
Favourite tracks: ‘Dancing Is The Best Revenge’, ‘The one 2’, ‘NRGQ’.
English producer Matthew Barnes releases his first Forest Sword album of textured electronic instrumentals (with sampled vocals) in 4 years. There’s a sound world vibe to the release, as if it was constructed to soundtrack to an imaginary place, removed from linear time. Remember that old PC game – Myst? Compassion feels like it could work as an alternative soundtrack to that world. That makes sense, Barnes recently composed music for the Assassin’s Creed game an is planning multidisciplinary projects in dance, performance, film and music to augment this album.
One of the appeals of Girlpool’s early work was its amateur minimalism, it’s nascent development. Leo Tucker and Harmony Tividad’s didn’t have a drummer and it worked for them. For album two on Anti records, a drummer has been added and their more extreme vocals seem to be have been dampened. On first listen, Girlpool may sound more like every other indie-rock band now but there’s a charm to what they do. Powerplant reminds me of the music of the Breeders. Only time and more listens with it will tell if it’s a keeper.
This week’s playlist contains new music from XL boss Richard Russell’s new Everything Is Recorded project featuring Sampha and a Curtis Mayfield sample, the return of Florida’s Hundred Waters,Icelandic rap from Ulfur Ulfur, rising new producer crew Superorganism, new songs from !!!, Mac DeMarco, Yumi And The Weather, Niia, Asgeir, Aldous Harding, Bibio and Little Simz; new Irish music from New Jackson, Ships, Kojaque, Le Boom as remixed by Mix & Fairbanks along with a classic track from Steely Dan.
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The Florida band Hundred Waters debuted the first song from their third record which they are currently finishing up as a trio. ‘Particle’ is typical of the band to meld electronic textures with more earthly tones. They say it’s “a deeply personal song that reflects a period of profound change within the band wherein the relationships of the members have shifted into unfamiliar territory, reflected in the song’s rapidly morphing textures.” The song is a free download.
2.
Mac Demarco – ‘For The First Time’
Slacker indie lo-fi poster child Mac DeMarco released his fine third album This Old Dog on Friday. ‘For The First Time’, an immediate highlight, is languid retro summer pop at its best.
3.
Grizzy Bear – ‘Three Rings’
It’s been so long since Grizzly Bear I almost feel like a different person. Still, Grizzly Bear’s return after five years is like welcoming a familiar old friend. Despite the time lapse, ‘Three Rings’ is cut from the same cloth as the band’s previous material. Meticulous full-band layered arrangements that ominously circle the tune with Ed Droste singing about wanting “to show you my bad side.”
4.
Haim – ‘Want You Back’
‘Want You Back’, the Haim sisters’ return is just one of those good songs that everyone can get behind. There’s nothing radical in departure here – just a very tightly calibrated pop song with a singalong chorus that whets the appetite for Something To Tell You on July 7th.
5.
EMBRZ – ‘Heartlines’
The Irish producer Jack Casey has announced a new EP Progress out on Ultra Music in July 7th. That’s the US label which has worked with DeadMau5, Axwell, Alle Farben, Steve Aoki and it’s easy to imagine this new trackwith vocals from Meadowlark going down well in the US.
6.
Bibio – ‘Beyond My Eyes’
Bibio’s new Beyond Serious EP purports to show ” his teenage influences and harks back to his inspirations from mid to late 90s French house.” ‘Beyond My Eyes’ is my highlight.
7.
Mr Jukes – ‘Angels’ / ‘ Your Love’ feat. BJ The Chicago Kid
Jack Steadman, singer with the currently-on-hiatus Bombay Bicycle CLub tries his hand at soul jazzy hip-hop production and nails it on this diptych.
Mac DeMarco announced his new album This Old Dog, on May 5th and he shared two new tracks from the album – ‘This Old Dog’ and ‘My Old Man’ from it.
Of course, that’s not all, Demarco also announced a tour of Europe and U that kicks off in March in the US and moves to Europe in May, finally arriving in Ireland for a Vicar Street show on Wednesday November 22nd. Tickets on sale for that on Friday morning from Ticketmaster.
Mac DeMarco Tour Dates
Fri. March 3 – Okeechobee, FL @ Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival Fri. March 24 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival Sat. March 25 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival Fri. Apr. 14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Fri. Apr. 21 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Tue. May 9 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Burlington * Thu. May 11 – Montreal, QB @ Metropolis * Sat. May. 13 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Theater * Sun. May. 14 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre * Mon. May. 15 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues – Cleveland * Tue. May. 16 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre * Wed. May. 17 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works * Fri. May. 19 – Sun. May 21 – Gulf Shores, AL @ Hangout Music Festival at Gulf Shores Beach Sat. May. 20 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle * Sun. May. 21 – Asheville, NC @ Highland Brewing Company * Mon. May. 22 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theater * Tue. May. 23 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club * Fri. May 26 – Sun. May 28 – Allston, MA @ Boston Calling Music Festival at Harvard Athletic Fields Tue. May 30 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton – Sold Out Wed. May 31 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton Fri. June 2 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Sun. June 4 – New York, NY @ Governor’s Ball at Randall’s Island Park Wed. Aug. 9 – Copenhagen, DK @ Den Graa Hal Thu. Aug. 10 – Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival Fri. Aug. 11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Sun. Aug. 13 – Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory Mon. Aug. 14 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival Tue. Aug. 15 – Vienna, AT @ Arena Fri. Aug. 18 – Biddinghuizen, NE @ Lowlands Festival Sun. Aug. 20 – Saint Malo, FR @ La Route du Rock Wed. Aug. 23 – Zurich, CH @ Zurich Open Air Festival Tue. Aug. 29 – Newcastle, UK @ The Academy Wed. Aug. 30 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall Fri. Sep. 8 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theater Sat. Sep. 9 – Portland, OR @ Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre Sun. Sep. 10 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre Tue. Nov. 7 – Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan Wed. Nov. 8 – Berlin, DE @ Astra Fri. Nov. 10 – Cologne, DE @ Kantine Wed. Nov. 22 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street Thu. Nov. 30 – Amsterdam, NE @ Paradiso
This week’s chart is headed by French producer Para One’s incendiary slice of gospel house with the South African Youth Choir, a surprising rap debut from Future Islands’ Sam T. Herring with Madlib no less, new artists from LA (Transviolet), Brighton (Oslo Parks), Cork (Lakerama), Wicklow (Joni), Melbourne (Cloves, pictured) along with electronic heat from Jack J and new music from Chvrches, Tame Impala and Mac Demarco. Also available on Spotify.
Mac DeMarco has a mini-album of love songs coming out on August 7th called Another One, the followup to the album that sneaked into rotation everywhere – Salad Days.
We’ve heard ‘The Way You’d Love Her,’ and here’s the title track, with its own self-produced video. The song sounds like something you’d discover on a long lost ’70s compilation or alternatively, a Money Mark song.
Mac DeMarco plays Electric Picnic among other dates listed below.
Tour dates
01 September – London, Roundhouse (new addition) 05 September – Stradbally (Ireland), Electric Picnic Festival 06 September – Salisbury, End of the Road festival 07 September – Glasgow, ABC 08 September – Bristol, Motion 09 September – London, Roundhouse (SOLD OUT) 10 September – Birmingham, The Institute 12 September – Manchester, Beacons Metro Festival
