NEW ALBUM: General Mack's Grapeshot 'Revel, Revel' + Album Launch Show

General Mack’s Grapeshot releases debut album Revel, Revel 
+ feature track ‘Raspberry Water’ 
+ album launch at The Fitzroy Pinnacle

General Mack’s Grapeshot is ready to reveal his debut album, Revel Revel, which is out now and features the track ‘Raspberry Water’. Connecting with local producer Robert Muinos (Didirri, Julia Jacklin, Jess Locke, Nat Vazer) over their shared appreciation for bold mixing selections, the upcoming album was tracked largely during excursions to Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. General Mack will launch the album at The Fitzroy Pinnacle on Saturday 12 April with support from Tallulah Grace & Wild Dog Mountains. 

General Mack’s Grapeshot allowed Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Mitchy McIvor to deliver his long-term intention of producing his own music. Sharing a ‘Mac’ like Mitchy McIvor’s ‘Mc’, General Mack, an Austrian general most remembered for commanding an embarrassing surrender to Napoleon, was an unlikely inspiration for the project’s name. The LP is filled with revelations inspired by the world around him, from a poem heard in ‘Canopies’, to the books and short stories that influenced ‘Roses’ and ‘Yellowhammer’, or the inspiration for feature single 'Raspberry Water’ that came from a phone recording in a change room.

‘I got the title from a short story by Ivan Turgenev. The song is about starting the day awash with motivation and determination only to finish having changed little and settling with the status quo. The first verse is the hopeful start of a day and the second verse is the retreat home. The bass line is the hook of this song and I came up with it in a change room while trying on jeans! I have a phone recording of me humming it complete with jean store background banter. It took some effort to get the final produced version but I love the end product. It’s a great demonstration of the combination of electronic and analogue that the record features.’ - General Mack’s Grapeshot

Alongside the topics of escapist sanctuaries, absurd realities, and time travel in released tracks ‘Carnival of Stars’ and ‘Grenades & Stomach Flu’, and new single ‘Steady Me’, the production adds subtle beautiful dimensions to each track. Listening to ‘Magpie, Magpie’ you’ll hear the delightful voices of Mitchy’s nieces Frankie and Rose. At the same time ‘Wildcat’ departs from his usual style into the world of classic rock, before album closer ‘Bluebells’, ‘For me, it’s what recording music and listening to music is all about. If you’re patient enough you can be transported to another place entirely, or at least it does so for me’ - General Mack’s Grapeshot

Revel, Revel Tracklisting:

1. Carnival of Stars

2. Grenades and Stomach Flu 
3. Canopies 
4. Raspberry Water 
5. It’s All Roses 
6. Steady Me 
7. Magpie, Magpie 
8. Yellowhammer 
9. Wildcat 
10. Bluebells

Having played in numerous bands in Melbourne and LA, including Cannon and Damndogs, Mitchy McIvor drew on the familiar guitar-drenched moments from his previous work creating cinematic textures with drum loops and oscillating synth bass. With scrapbooks filled with notes, phrases, and conversation, General Mack’s Grapeshot’s music takes inspiration from novels, short stories and poetry, drawing on dominant production techniques inspired by the works of Beck, The Kills, St Vincent, Danger Mouse, Serge Gainsbourg, and the War on Drugs. 

Don’t miss your opportunity to hear the album live in full this April at The Fitzroy Pinnacle.  

Revel, Revel out Friday 27 February 
Via Gyrostream + Bandcamp 

Revel, Revel Launch Show:
Saturday 12 April
The Fitzroy Pinnacle, VIC
Supports: Tallulah Grace & Wild Dog Mountains