Mac McCaughan - Dawn Bends

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Mac McCaughan - "Dawn Bends" from the 2021 album The Sound of Yourself on Merge.

Superchunk frontman and Merge Records co-founder Mac McCaughan returns this fall with his second solo album, The Sound of Yourself. The release features a slew of guests including Mary Lattimore, Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog), TORRES' Mackenzie Scott, Telekinesis' Michael Benjamin Lerner, Annie Hayden, his brother Matt McCaughan, and on today's Song of the Day, drummer Jon Wurster and Yo La Tengo. ("I am aware of the irony of an album called The Sound Of Yourself with this many guests on it!," he shares in a press release.)

Like many great albums coming out right now, The Sound Of Yourself came out of the lockdown. "Each day is blurring into the next, so what are we doing today?” he would ask himself during the pandemic. “How can I disrupt this? I think what resulted was a theme of subdued… ‘joy’ is the wrong word, but it’s at least comforting if not propulsive to have something open-ended to work on every day without any kind of structure or deadline or rules.”

The Sound of Yourself will be out September 24th via Merge Records (of course).

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0:00.0	Come me on the dotted line where I swim It's been here this whole time
0:25.0	Structions for taking it be a heart Couldn't read it till it got this star
0:35.0	And when dawn does it break? It bends
0:43.0	And how will you fight your friends?
0:53.0	In the air and your head and your sand How will you fight your friends?
1:24.0	For the creature and the compost pile To put together the leaves and vile
1:32.0	With branches and thinking smiles The offers show direction
1:40.0	But you could burn that trash for a little light You can stack out the cans to a great, great height
1:49.0	Send out signals to way up there I would cross your bed and mission for reflection
2:01.0	And when dawn does it break? It bends
2:10.0	And how will you fight your friends?
2:19.0	In the air and your head and your sand How will you fight your friends?
2:35.0	And dawn does it break? It bends
2:43.0	And how will you fight your friends?
2:53.0	And how will you fight your friends?
3:07.0	And dawn does it break? It bends
3:15.0	And dawn does it break? It bends
3:23.0	And dawn does it break? It bends
3:36.0	And how will you fight your friends?
3:46.0	And how will you fight your friends?

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