{"id":2175462,"date":"2025-11-24T20:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2175462"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:10:05","slug":"mac-demarco-hid-copies-of-his-secret-album-for-fans-to-find-while-touring-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mac-demarco-hid-copies-of-his-secret-album-for-fans-to-find-while-touring-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac DeMarco hid copies of his &#8220;secret album&#8221; for fans to find while touring Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/mac-demarco\">Mac DeMarco<\/a> has revealed he hid copies of his \u201csecret album\u201d for fans to discover whilst out on tour in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Eschewing press releases and social media rollouts, the Canadian indie rocker instead taped CD-R copies of his latest project, \u2018Dog On The Rock\u2019, to barricades on his most recent trek across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco teased something new was coming last month in an interview at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRaqBjqkZND\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris\u2019 Arte Concert Festival<\/a>, referring to it at the time as \u201cMac\u2019s secret album\u201d and saying: \u201cI actually do have a bunch of recordings that I made in between these two tours, and I went to the print shop to make little album sleeves of that yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo maybe there will be another secret album, but one that you can hear this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With fans now sharing the lo-fi, demo-quality tracks on YouTube, all 40 minutes of new material is now available to listeners \u2013 and you can check it out below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mac DeMarco - Dog on the Rock\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWsdBpsNBj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In support of his most recent acclaimed album \u2018Guitar\u2019, the Canadian indie veteran will follow his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/primavera-sound-barcelona-2026-line-up-revealed-3895061\">scheduled appearance at Primavera Sound <\/a>next year <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mac-demarco-announces-summer-2026-uk-and-european-tour-3903210\">with a run of shows across the UK and Europe<\/a>. Kicking off with a three-night residency at London\u2019s O2 Academy Brixton \u2013 marking his first shows in the venue since 2019 \u2013 he will then make stops in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and more.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/mac-demarco-soundtrack-of-my-life-3886221\">spoke to\u00a0<em>NME<\/em> <\/a>back in August about the pivotal music that shaped who he is, with the likes of The Sultan Of Slacker Rock and Moody Blues making the cut.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, he<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mac-demarco-criticises-ai-generated-music-were-in-a-weird-place-3885311\">\u00a0reflected on the changes in the music industry<\/a>\u00a0throughout his career \u2013 specifically the rise of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a funny zone right now where AI is coming in and getting good at things, fast,\u201d he told \u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/mac-demarco-guitar-interview-tour-live-album-b2808328.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThings start feeling paint-by-numbers sometimes. When you have AI bands coming around, and people listening to music without even realising it\u2019s AI-generated, we\u2019re in a weird place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI hear about people using AI to even write lyrics a lot nowadays, which is a bit like\u2026 give me a fucking break. I think it\u2019s about intention. If people want to climb the mountain, I guess you use the tools you can to get up there. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re gonna find when you get up there, but hopefully you\u2019re happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac DeMarco has revealed he hid copies of his \u201csecret album\u201d for fans to discover whilst out on tour in Europe. Eschewing press releases and social media rollouts, the Canadian indie rocker instead taped CD-R copies of his latest project, \u2018Dog On The Rock\u2019, to barricades on his most recent trek across Europe. 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