‘Heavy Sleeper’ is a fever dream of fuzz-laden guitars and surf rock influenced textures. The track features Mackin’s powerful, grungy vocals navigating the blurred border between dreams and nightmares, accompanied by an eye-catching Colin Shields-directed music video.

Speaking of the track, Mackin says “’Heavy Sleeper’ is the nightmare that exists in and out of sleep. We are fully free in our sleep- as we also actually are when we are awake, so which is where we are? Is it a nightmare or is it a dream?”

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The announcement arrives alongside the release of her new single ‘Concrete Trees’, a poignant tribute to a late friend, capturing the surreal sensation of reconnecting with a lost loved one. The track blends surf-tinged melodies with a subtle edge, and comes accompanied by a Pooneh Ghana-directed video.

“This is a song I wrote about a friend, Steph, who passed away. A sprint through Manhattan with a ghost!” Mackin explains. “We grew up together and worked at a Scottish butcher shop in Kearny, NJ along with some of our other friends, my great aunt Mary, and the owner/butcher himself,  Al Stewart. Steph died in 2018 and I wrote this track shortly after that after waking up from a dream. Oddly enough just this year we lost Aunt Mary and Al. This song is for friends who have passed that you wish you could have one more hang with. I often find myself asking those who have passed if they are here with us now.” 

Mackin’s music fuses gritty, dark, mechanical textures with a playful and whimsical spirit. On Waking Up, which was produced and recorded by Ty Segall in Topanga, CA, with Nick Cornetti on drums and Derek Strahan on bass, Mackin finds herself exploring grittier, more mechanical textures, while maintaining her knack for blissful hooks and melodies. Following two self-released records, Waking Up marks Chairlegs’ third full-length release, and her first for TODO, ushering in a bold new chapter for the Austin mainstay.

Waking Up:

1. Waking Up
2. Concrete Trees
3. Ice Cream On The Beach
4. Above It All
5. Shoo Fly
6. Sally
7. Patty Get Your Gun
8. Sword Swallower
9. Heavy Sleeper
10. Street Urchin

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Today’s announcement arrives alongside the news that Mackin has signed to TODO, the label from Simon Halliday, Meesh Halliday and Pooneh Ghana, that is home to acts like Jamie Lidell, Porcelain, Native Sun, Surfbort and Grace Inspace. Her debut for the label, it’s her first new release since 2022’s Danke Schoen/Sunglasses, and finds her exploring grittier, more mechanical textures, while maintaining her knack for blissful hooks and melodies.

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