THE MACKS - BONANZA - DEVILDUCK / FULLAWAY

Building their own bizarre universe and hurling themselves through it at warp speed, Portland, Oregon’s The Macks today release their new album Bonanza via DevilDuck Records / Monotone's record label fullaway through The Orchard. Only announcing the album at the beginning of September, the band makes the assertion that rock music should be both deliberate and still a little bit chaotic in its most raw form.

A bonanza is a situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealth or good fortune. The Macks’ Bonanza however has no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Founded in 2015 by brothers Josef (drums) and Ben Windheim (guitar), Sam Fulwiler (vocals), Jacob Michael Perris (keys) and Aidan Harrison (bass), The Macks have been collecting disciples one at a time, building up their cult-like following. They see this album as a record made just for those very people. Focused, scattered, electric and tender, Bonanza is a collection of miscellaneous rock that could only have been crafted by this dedicated and bull-headedly sincere troupe of desperate artists. First time listeners will be met with honest writing, bold production, and a world that invites them to join in on the good fortune — just don’t expect any money.

In a hard-driving suite of 11 tracks, the new record covers everything from the disillusionment of existing in the current state of affairs to the doldrums of the suburban lifestyle. Topics that they had to move away from to eventually get close to, Bonanza is The Macks in raw, unfiltered form.

Windheim shared, "We had a very strong vision for Bonanza. With The Macks Are A Knife, we explored a maximalist approach, writing tons of songs and creating dense arrangements. With Bonanza, we knew the tracklist before we recorded a single note, and we pre-produced the whole thing. It's not a concept album, but loosely it's an ‘I am’ statement, showing as completely what The Macks can do as possible. It's soft, heavy, catchy, heady, fun, devastating, cocky, vulnerable... It's all about contrast and our lives which comes with the entire range of emotions"

Putting it simply, Fulwiler said, “Bonanza is a slice of life. It’s about boys, girls, and dying.”

In new focus track “Super Sayin’” The Macks sound like they’re having an argument with the voices in their head. Effortlessly flowing though the nearly stream-of-consciousness lyrics, the band is fed up with grinding their gears just to have their knives dulled, dotting their t’s and crossing their eyes, just to continually be overlooked and have to play it cool.