I remember not wanting keyboard stands on stage for some dumb reason, I thought they were whack or something. I was talking about the intro to synths in our live sets the other day. I wish I could play the keys better but there's also something in not really knowing where to go on an instrument, lots of pleasing mistakes. To be honest, I don't listen to very much guitar music nowadays, maybe for a long time actually. I'm also not exactly a shredder on guitar either so it's nice to have a couple more colours to paint with. I had been interested previously but I really have no clue what I'm doing on a piano or keyboard and had very little understanding of synthesizers or anything like that at the time. Salad Days was the first time I had actual keyboard driven songs on any of my records. When/why did you make the shift from strictly guitars and drums to incorporating keys and synths on tour and your albums? Took me a little while to get back into the swing of driving all the time and actually working and settling everything at first hahahaha. It was just Kiera and me in a Dodge Caravan so it was definitely pretty different than how things usually roll out for us these days. I really enjoyed doing a whole tour of it. It's definitely a very different thing than how we normally do things, I talk a lot, it's very relaxed, very quiet. It would usually be in more of a unconventional setting than with the band. I've done shows on my own periodically for a bunch of years now. Was touring solo (with out "your boys") a welcomed change of pace or a necessity for songs on This Old Dog? I went a little crazy making it, feeling groovy about it now, it should be very strange playing it live. It's probably the weirdest album I've made - very jarring. It's my "cowboy" album but it's not really "cowboy" in a lot of ways hahaha. I just finished making it and it's getting mastered right now.
I'm not sure how much I can say right now. How much can you share about your next album? The tech website The Verge hosts an article that uses his page as an example of an app-wide glitch resulting in follower loss. UPDATED Feb 13: Some folks inquired about the disappearance of Mac’s Instagram account. Though we are still waiting for Rihanna’s reggae album, Sharon Van Etten drew first and delivered a powerful punch with Remind Me Tomorrow and with records by Hand Habits, Cass McCombs, and Jessica Pratt announced - we’re in for an earful in 2019.
This and previous interviews have been a pleasure and I’m excited about the music due out this year. Mac also affectionately calls Michael McDonald “Mike” which gives me a blissful feeling. He reveals a few hints as to what the record will look like (I haven’t considered Mac to be a cowboy - until now.) and a teaser about tour plans this year. Since then, between 20 we have toured closely (Angel Olsen festival sets would often be directly before or during Mac’s) and I always enjoyed traveling and talking with Mac and “the boys.” Recently, I was looking forward to hearing about their new album and the inception of Mac’s own label. The in-store didn’t pan out but I did see the band’s show at The Empty Bottle and Mac and the band. The album was just hitting shelves but I was interested in seeing them live almost immediately. After hearing Rock And Roll Night Club and subsequently stocking it at Reckless Records in Chicago, I approached his manager (Hi Michelle) and label Captured Tracks in hopes of hosting an in-store performance at the shop.
The easy-going and infectious personality that is Mac MeMarco has been on our collective radars since 2012 (perhaps even before with Makeout Videotape).
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