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Jun 29, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar Photography by Kelly Kettering

Mike Krol and Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan have joined forces as Mac Krol and shared a new song, “For Some Other Reason.” It is the A-side to new seven-inch single due out July 28 via Merge. The 7-inch will also feature the songs “Fair Warning” and “What Would You Say?”

The collaboration began in 2015 when Krol and his bandmates had a recording session at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone after recording Turkey. Their end product was “a handful of riffs and ideas.”

Krol says in a press release: “The plan was to take the rough mixes home and write lyrics to record them later. 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.” After unearthing the recordings during the pandemic, Krol emailed them over to McCaughan. “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!”

“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!”

Krol’s last album was 2019’s Power Chords. Check out our review of it on our website.

McCaughan is about to embark on a tour with Superchunk. Check out the dates below.

Superchunk Tour Dates:

Jul 08 Chicago, IL – Square Roots Festival
Jul 09 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
Sep 08 Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall*
Sep 09 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar*
Sep 10 Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall*
Sep 12 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground*
Sep 13 Portland, ME – SPACE Gallery*
Sep 14 Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom*
Sep 15 Woodstock, NY – Colony*
Sep 16 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom*
Oct 11 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Oct 12 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
Oct 14 Durham, NC – That Music Fest
Nov 02 Berlin, DE – Lido
Nov 03 Bielefeld, DE – Forum
Nov 04 Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur
Nov 05 Bologna, IT – Improved Sequence Fest
Nov 06 Zurich, CH – El Lokal
Nov 09 London, UK – Bush Hall
Nov 10 Bristol, UK – Strange Brew
Nov 11 Leeds, UK – The Brudenell Social Club
Nov 12 Manchester, UK – Night & Day
Nov 13 Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
Nov 15 Haarlem, NL – Patronaat

*w/ Cable Ties

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