"For Some Other Reason" b/w "Fair Warning" and "What Would You Say?", by Mac Krol

"For Some Other Reason" b/w "Fair Warning" and "What Would You Say?"

by Mac Krol

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Infinity64 This EP was a surprise, but a welcome one. Some really great stuff that I'd *love* to hear more of. Favorite track: Fair Warning.

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1.	For Some Other Reason 02:45	buy track
2.	Fair Warning 02:27	buy track
3.	What Would You Say? 01:53	buy track

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On July 28, 2023, Merge Records will release “For Some Other Reason” b/w “Fair Warning” and “What Would You Say?” a 7-inch by Mac Krol, the blistering combo of Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan.

The collaboration began its life in 2015, when Krol and his bandmates Elliott Kozel, Phil Mahlstadt, and Michael Sienkowski decamped to San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone after recording Turkey, intending to turn “a handful of riffs and ideas” into a full record.
“The plan was to take the rough mixes home and write lyrics to record them later,” Krol explains. “However, once I got home and listened to the songs, I quickly realized that most of them were in the wrong key for my voice. So I filed them away to deal with later, and eventually lost interest.”
In 2020, stuck inside due to the pandemic, Krol rediscovered the tracks on an old hard drive and had time to try his hand at solving them. “To my surprise,” he says, “they sounded better than I remembered, but still didn't work with my voice. I emailed Mac the tracks and said if he was bored in quarantine, maybe he could write some words to sing on top of my instrumentals and possibly give them a second life. He said he hated writing lyrics and politely declined. A few days later, three songs showed up with completed lyrics and iconic Mac McCaughan singing and shredding all over them. I was blown away!”
No longer an abandoned recording session, Mac Krol arrives, sounding like lost Portastatic or Superchunk B-sides, as vital and inventive as you’d expect from a dream pairing like Krol and McCaughan. “Without Mac,” Krol says, “these songs would still be discarded instrumentals, so I’m very thankful that he brought them across the finish line so they can finally be heard!”

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released July 28, 2023

Mike Krol: guitars, drums
Phil Mahlstadt: bass
Elliott Kozel: synths
Michael Sienkowski: percussion
Recorded at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, April 2015
Music written by Mike Krol / Genius Takes Pains (ASCAP)

Mac McCaughan: vocals, lead guitar
Recorded at Glendale Drive in Chapel Hill, August 2020
Lyrics and lead guitar written by Mac McCaughan / Merge Music Publishing (BMI)

Engineered by Beau Sorenson
Mixed/Produced by Elliott Kozel
Mastered by Dave Gardner

Photos by Kelly Kettering in Los Angeles, August 2022

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Mike Krol Los Angeles, California

Mike Krol is a band/idea out of Los Angeles, with additional members in Minneapolis, Madison, and Seattle.

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