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We had the pleasure of interviewing Spencer Marcu over Zoom video!\xa0

Around 2008,\xa0SPENCER\xa0MARCU\xa0was on top of the world. The LA native was well-liked by his classmates.\xa0He was in his early teens, had\xa0the attention of several\xa0girlfriends.\xa0Life was good. Then all of a sudden it wasn\u2019t. \u201cI started experimenting with things, if you know what I mean. It felt like living like a rockstar at 13.\u201d
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His rockstar behavior quickly caught up with him and\xa0SPENCER's parents shipped\xa0him off to a camp far out into the Utah wilderness where he could, they hoped, reshape the trajectory of his life. Anyone put through the kind of crucible that\xa0MARCU\xa0endured at such a formative age would\xa0almost certainly come out the other end changed. When he finally got back home\xa0to LA, he suddenly realized the whole world viewed him differently.
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Feeling isolated,\xa0MARCU\xa0returned to the one place he could always receive salvation: Music. He hasn\u2019t stopped writing since.\xa0Music runs through\xa0Marcu\u2019s\xa0blood. His father is an Academy Award winning songwriter, who earned his Oscar for writing the\xa0Dirty Dancing\xa0anthem \u201c(I\u2019ve Had) The Time of My Life.\u201d\xa0Although he didn\u2019t specifically teach him how to write songs,\xa0SPENCER's father would point out chords in songs on the radio and show\xa0MARCU\xa0how to play them on guitar. Before long,\xa0SPENCER\xa0was shredding Jimi Hendrix solos off the\xa0Woodstock\xa0live album, note-for-note.
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He had the tools. Now he had something to say. Hundreds of demos, songs and journal entries later, an album began to take shape. The record he produced is called\xa0'Homemade'.\xa0It\u2019s an experience of growth as told through 11 separate tracks.1

Whilst he recorded in some great studios (Stagg Street Studios, Megawatt Studios, Kingsized Studios) and was assisted by some of the best record producers on the planet,\xa0the feeling of the music remained the most important thing.\xa0Thus,\xa0half of the\xa0album\xa0is filled out by the demos\xa0SPENCER\xa0originally tracked at home.
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Homemade'\xa0unfolds like a journey through\xa0MARCU\u2019s\xa0own experience. It\u2019s filled with searing guitar solos, bombastic choruses and flashes of hard-earned wisdom. Now, on November 19th, 2021, exactly three years to the day that he finished recording the album and checked himself into detox\xa0to rid himself of all toxins including toxic habits, relationships and thought patterns,\xa0SPENCER\xa0has conquered his struggles, he's happy, healthy and finally ready to share his beautifully authentic and deeply personal 11-track musical biography with the world. In his own words\xa0\u201cI have found my way back home.\xa0I'm saying the things I\xa0wanna\xa0say. I'm doing the things I\xa0wanna\xa0do. I don't have any more bad habits holding me back. I've learned to leave things alone if they're not working out\u2026music is supposed to be a\xa0healing and spiritual experience.\u201d

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