Name: Now
Brand: Jesse Mac Cormack

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LP-SCRT-088X

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Special Limited Edition Milky Clear Vinyl in Single Pocket Jacket with Matte finish. 12’’ x 24’’ folded poster with exclusive artwork and lyrics included. Download coupon included.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-05-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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680341880013

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jesse Mac Cormack

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

SECRET City Records

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Street Worms, originally released in September 2018, saw the Stockholm-formed sextet Viagra Boys explode on to the scene with feverish energy and caustic irony. Their initial nine-track debut album has been expanded with five brand new songs carrying the same infectious 'ugly gonzo post-punk' spirit.

Fronted by the distinctively tattooed Sebastian 'Sebbe' Murphy (himself a tattoo artist), he delivers a devastating vocal showerstorm over the churning overdriven guitars and relentlessly driving rhythms. Singing as if he's having an existential breakdown, the lyrics tackle the absurdness of existence - as if being anything at all is some kind of joke on humanity - 'It was all a dream, but it was so nice/I had a nice house and such a lovely wife.'

Another theme the album tackles is, as their name intends to pun, man's failed role in society - and will we ever get that agenda on Sports out of our heads? 'Baseball/Basketball/Weiner dog/Short shorts/Cigarette'. They snarl at everyday behaviours such as exaggerated virility and classism, but manage to conjure some humour out of the serious issues. And despite the anger and anxiety towards masculine insufficiency, there's a sensitivity and a humanism running through the album too - 'You'll turn into dirt someday/Same dirt as me/Like one becomes a two and two becomes a three/The same worms that eat me will someday eat you too'.

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Albums of The Month - May 2019

Jesse Mac Cormack is a Neo-Folk artist hailing from the vibrant Montreal underground scene in Canada. With his soulful vocals and introspective lyrics, Jesse creates music that resonates with listeners on a deep level.
His unique sound draws inspiration from various genres, including folk, rock, and indie. Jesse's heartfelt performances captivate audiences and leave them wanting more.
Influenced by artists such as Gabrielle Shonk, Matt Holubowski, and Les Louanges, Jesse has carved out his own niche in the music industry. His talent has earned him recognition among fellow musicians and critics alike.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

New album from Jesse Mac Cormack titled Now available on Special Limited Edition Milky Clear Vinyl with Extras and CD.

Not everything appears instantly. Jesse Mac Cormack‘s astonishing debut album arrives unhurried: a work of ardent, kaleidoscopic art-rock that is at once a dazzling premiere and the culmination of a meticulous five-year evolution. Over the course of three EPs – 2014’s Music for the Soul, 2015’s Crush and 2016’s After the Glow – the Montreal native has gathered accolades and refined his vision, nourishing a songwriting that is lavish and undaunted. Whereas Jesse’s earlier work drew heavily from folk and roots-rock – Les Inrocks called him the “new hero of modern folk” – the songs on Now are prismatic and forward-facing, recalling the adventurous pop of Tame Impala, Talk Talk and Perfume Genius.

As always, Jesse played most of the instruments himself, from bass to steel drums to analog synths. He’s a home-studio wizard and a blazing guitarist, tapped to salute Stevie Ray Vaughan at last year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival. His approach has been informed by years of collaboration – performing across North America and Europe with bands like Patrick Watson, The Barr Brothers and Cat Power, and producing acclaimed albums for Helena Deland, Emilie Kahn, Philippe Brach and many others. 

For his own first LP, Jesse knew he wanted to make music that would thrive in a live setting – lit up with choruses and incendiary guitar riffs, fluorescent synths, and upfront percussion. Instead of working from melody and chords, songs like Give A Chance were built from the rhythm section up, imagining the way an audience might respond. This sense of exploration suffuses Now‘s 10 songs, but so does a sense of dream: the idea that discoveries aren’t just made by forethought but by feel. Seasons pass, relationships change, lessons come from unexpected quarters. "Yesterday is already gone and tomorrow may never come,” Jesse explains – and songs like No Love Go and Nothing Lasts try to abide in that precarious present. Other tracks draw on feelings of reverie and trance, desire and compulsion, even the singer’s experiences with psychedelics. Yet for all its searching, Jesse’s music never seems aimless or confused. These aren’t slack-jawed jams: they’re would-be hits, clear-eyed and direct. If the record has a landscape, it’s the open space of the Mojave desert – “vast and weird,” the tranquil bed of what was once a teeming ocean. Death Valley has long loomed large in Jesse’s imaginary; he returned there to shoot the album’s artwork, and two forthcoming music videos. “If you succeed at being yourself, nothing can stop you,” Jesse says. For some, albums are statements: the summation of who you are and what you want. For others they’re documents: the recording of a particular moment in time, before it fades away. Now is somehow both: a statement of principles and a blink of the eye; painstaking songcraft and an acknowledgment of flow. At 30 years old, Jesse Mac Cormack is gathering the world around him. He’s living in the moment – with a song on his lips, a guitar in his hands.

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