Photo by Kiera McNally

Mac DeMarco has announced news of his forthcoming album ‘Five Easy Hot Dogs’. Scheduled to land January 20th, with vinyl copies hitting stores May 12th, the record will get released via his imprint Mac’s Record Label.

Each song title of the upcoming album is the name of the city in which each specific track was recorded and mixed. Five Easy Hot Dogs follows DeMarco’s 2019 LP Here Comes the Cowboy.

Regarding the new album, Mac DeMarco stated:

“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.”

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