Photo courtesy of Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco has returned today to announce his seventh studio album Guitar, set to release on August 22 via his own Mac’s Record Label imprint. The veteran indie hero’s first full-length since 2023’s instrumental record Five Easy Hot Dogs and sprawling 199-track demo compilation One Wayne G continues that thread of dreamy ruminations, collapsing his personal life and its musical expression into an intently unmitigated glimpse of his mind in this moment. To preview the project, he’s shared the lead single “Home,” alongside a new batch of spring tour dates for 2026.
DeMarco wrote and recorded Guitar in November 2024, handling all performance and production from his Los Angeles home, shooting the music videos and album art on tripods and mixing the project up in Canada. The album’s only contribution from outside the artist was final mastering by David Ives. With that fiercely independent approach, the soloist created a uniquely intimate expression of his inner world; every resonant strum of “Home,” a subtly stripped-down twist on his signature jazzy, breezy slacker rock, echoes the story that his gentle falsetto tells “about what home means to me.”
“I think Guitar is as close to a true representation of where I’m at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper,” DeMarco expressed in a statement. “I’m happy to share this music, and look forward to playing these songs as many places as I’m able.”
After working through his completely sold-out 2025 tour, DeMarco will return to the stage in the late winter and spring of 2026 for 23 shows in Japan and across the US, including appearances in Las Vegas, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, Dallas and San Diego. He’ll be joined on the run by Mac’s Record Label signees Mock Media, Tex Crick, Daryl Johns and Vicky Farewell. Tickets for all new dates will go on sale this Friday, June 27 at 12 p.m. ET.
Guitar is available to pre-order now. Watch the music video for “Home,” which DeMarco shot while canoeing near his mom’s home in Canada, below, and read on for the album’s full tracklist.
Guitar – Mac DeMarco:
1. Shining
2. Sweeter
3. Phantom
4. Nightmare
5. Terror
6. Rock And Roll
7. Home
8. Nothing At All
9. Punishment
10. Knockin
11. Holy
12. Rooster
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