RAC

Grammy award winning artist RAC, (a.k.a. André Allen Anjo) will be releasing his highly anticipated new album “EGO” on July 14^th via Counter Records. The record follows his 2014 album “Strangers.” With this release, Anjos is re-directing RAC to songwriting which accounts for the record’s intimate but full-lunged tone, as heard on the records’ new single “I Still Wanna Know,” featuring vocals and a guitar solo from Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo.

"I was the kid at summer camp that would sit in a corner with a walkman trying to figure out how to play Weezer guitar riffs," RAC posted on Facebook. "Never in a million years did I think that I would end up writing a song with Rivers Cuomo himself. It’s actually a co-write with my good friends CLASSIXX as well. I’m really proud of this one and I truly hope you like it."

Recorded between Anjos’ home studio in Portland and sessions in Los Angeles, “EGO” features collaborations with Cuomo, Rostam, MNDR, St. Lucia, KNA, Joywave among others. This collection is Anjos’ most ambitious, cohesive and personal work to date and chronicles his organic progression as an artist.

“The word ‘ego’ can have a negative connotation, but I think of it as an exploration of self,” he explains. “The album is really me figuring out what I personally wanted; I felt free to do whatever.”

Born and raised in Portugal, Anjos studied piano and guitar in his teens and played in local bands. He moved to the U.S. to study music business at Greenville College in Illinois before settling in Portland, OR. Anjos founded RAC while in his college dorm and has since gained an audience creating remixes for Lana Del Rey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ellie Goulding, Foster the People, Phoenix, Imagine Dragons, Two Door Cinema Club, The Shins and label mates ODESZA, among many others. Anjos received his first Grammy nomination in 2016 for his remix of ODESZA’s “Say My Name” and this past year won a Grammy for Best Remixed Recording of Bob Moses’ “Tearing Me Up,” making him the first Portuguese artist to win a Grammy.

RAC began releasing original content with his first song “Hollywood” via Green Label Sound in 2012. Anjos quickly proved himself as a songwriter with his debut album Strangers (2014), which contains the singles “Let Go,” featuring Bloc Party’s Kele & MNDR and “Cheap Sunglasses” featuring Matthew Koma.

RAC will be playing at Outside Lands Music Festival and Life Is Beautiful Festival.  He also has Fall tour dates confirmed across North America.

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