Ianmackintosh

Portland, OR, USA

Mackintosh is a Portland-based electro pop/rock band led by producer/engineer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Ian Mackintosh. Known for his longtime collaboration with Ben Braun (Mackintosh Braun), Ian has just recently released the album Don’t Show This To Anyone which serves as both a fresh new calling card and a musical reintroduction of sorts. With heavy lifting from Jody Redifer on drums and a spattering of performances from some of his live band-mates (Matthew Gannon, Christian Hurd, and Michael Charles Smith), Don’t Show This... is an ivy-league offering of twelve 3-minute groove diggers that offer a pop-adjacent juxtaposition of style and substance, slick and saturated, retro-reverent and future-forward toe-tappers. As evident in the aptly-named knee-jerking first single “Energy”, Mackintosh has found and exploited the link between the modern home studio psychedelia of Tame Impala, the arena rock and/or roll swagger of The Rolling Stones, and the animated percussive outbursts of