Holiday From Me

Studio album by Paul Mac

Released

10 April 2015

Recorded

The Panic Room, Sydney

PaulMac

Paul Mac chronology

Panic Room
(2005)

'Holiday From Me'
(2015)

"Holiday From Me" is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paulmac. It was released on 10 April 2015, almost ten years since his last album. The album was launched by throwing a party on a secret train trip in Sydney on 8 April. He took hundreds of guests from Central Station to Cronulla, where he took over a venue and played his new record in full, featuring guest performances from those featured on the release.

Since the release of Panic Room in 2005, Mac has been working with Daniel Johns and touring with Silverchair, remixing and DJing with Jonny Seymour as Stereogamous, composing film scores and soundtracks for many Australian films including Kath and Kimderella, Beautiful and Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger and developing new music for dance productions as well as his own tours. In between that, he'd return to Sydney to write and record new music. He was writing sketches while in tour buses and hotel rooms, and from there he started looking for people to collaborate with and began to record demos. “I ask people that I really like to help out. Sometimes I come up with a really good verse but no chorus yet, or a good chorus but no verse, so I just invite people I really like to get involved... I guess I don't work with people I don't like, or people I think are fake. So I kinda adore everybody on the album because I really believe in them as musicians.” Paul describes the album as very “break up-y”, as he explored ways to express how he felt about his own breakup during the early stages of the album.

Holiday From Me thematises escape and transcendence, yet PaulMac's desire was for it to have depth. “So many songs on the radio are written for 16-year-old girls, essentially, and often I think the emotional side of the lyric is really simple. Generally, it’s like a tantrum of, ‘You’re fucked and I’m amazing.’ It’s really one-sided.” "Someone Else" is a gracious response to getting 'dumped' by a boyfriend. “The lyrics come from a much more mature space of what life is and what love is and what’s important and what isn’t important.”

Katie Cunningham of Rolling Stone Australia gave the album 3 out of 5 saying "Four years in the making, Mac's brought on board a formidable collection of guest vocalists and co-producers" adding "Holiday From Me is a welcome return."

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