RAC

Ego

Clear Coloured Vinyl 2LP

Grammy award winning artist RAC (pronounced Ar-Ay-Cee)—known as André Allen Anjos releases his highly anticipated new album EGO via Counter Records. The record follows the release of Anjos’ 2014 album Strangers, which SPIN called, “…an impossibly smooth listen.” With this release, Anjos is re-directing RAC to songwriting which accounts for the record’s intimate but full-lunged tone, as heard on the records’ second single I Still Wanna Know, featuring vocals and a guitar solo from Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo as well as additional production by Classixx.

Anjos recently released the first single, This Song (Featuring Vampire Weekend’s Rostam) off his new album, which reached #1 on the HypeMachine Popular Chart, received radio play from Jason Bentley at KCRW, Huw Stephens at BBC Radio 1, and Triple J and premiered on Billboard, who proclaimed, “The beat is punchy and the vibe is like falling in love.”

Recorded between Anjos’ home studio in Portland and sessions in Los Angeles, EGO features collaborations with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam, MNDR, St. Lucia, KNA, and Joywave among others. EGO is Anjos’ most ambitious, cohesive, and personal work to date and chronicles his organic progression as an artist. “The word ‘ego’ can have a negative connotation, but I think of it as an exploration of self,” he explains. “The album is really me figuring out what I personally wanted; I felt free to do whatever.”

Tracklist

1. Fever ft. KNA 
2. I Still Wanna Know ft. Rivers Cuomo 
3. Nobody ft. Chaos Chaos 
4. Unusual ft. MNDR 
5. This Song ft. Rostam 
6. No One Has To Know ft. Joywave 
7. The Beautiful Game ft. St. Lucia 
8. Johnny Cash ft. Scavenger Hunt 
9. It’s A Shame ft. Pink Feathers 
10. Be ft. Jordan Corey 
11. Heartbreak Summer ft. K. Flay 
12. Find A Way ft. Alice MK  
13. Heavy ft. Karl Kling
14. End