Not for three years have we been gifted with a new album from John MacLean and Nancy Whang a.k.a. The Juan MacLean, a pair that has written relevant disco music for over a decade. The nice thing is that they’re keeping the genre kicking not by adding too many modern bells and whistles, mashing styles, etc., but simply by writing really good songs. In a Dream won’t stray far from the band’s disco grounding, but it will act as a showcase for Whang’s vocals, which, while essential to the band’s sound, have always shared space with MacLean’s. The album isn’t out until September 19, when it will be released through DFA, so hold those horses, but a single called “A Place Called Space” has been released alongside an alleviating video, a tracklist, and a number of DJ dates, so please relax. You can even pre-order it.
In a Dream tracklist:
01. A Place Called Space
02. Here I Am
03. Love Stops Here
04. You Were a Runaway
05. Running Back to You
06. I’ve Waited for So Long
07. Charlotte
08. A Simple Design
09. The Sun Will Never Set on Our Love
The Juan MacLean DJ Dates:
07.11.14 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
08.01.14 - Chicago, IL - Smart Bar
08.02.14 - El Monte, CA - HARD Summer 2014
09.05.14 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Rust
09.06.14 - London, UK - The Nest
09.07.14 - Berlin, Germany - Panoramabar
09.12.14 - Helsinki, Finland - Kaiku
09.13.14 - Barcelona, Spain - Nitsa
09.20.14 - Glasgow, UK - Berkeley Suite
09.21.14 - Edinburgh, UK - Sneaky Pete’s
09.26.14 - Bern, Switzerland - Club Bonsoir
09.27.14 - Paris, France - Badaboum
• The Juan MacLean: http://www.thejuanmaclean.com
• DFA: http://dfarecords.com
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