Juan Wauters shares “Millionaire," single from new album, Wandering Rebel, out now on Captured Tracks
Juan Wauters
Shares music video for “Millionaire” from Wandering Rebel, out now via Captured Tracks
WATCH VIDEO HERE
Album includes features from Y La Bamba, Frankie Cosmos, Zoe Gotusso, and more
LISTEN TO WANDERING REBEL HERE
SELECT PRAISE:
Really intentionally crafted music…funny, observant, relaxing, ephemeral, and forces you to slow down and be present with it. - NPR All Songs Considered
Most introspective album to date. - Pitchfork
For a singer who once operated in the lowest of fi, Wandering Rebel is his most lavish production yet, but his innocent worldview and offbeat charm, reminiscent of Jonathan Richman, remain Wauters' greatest assets. - BrooklynVegan
….well-crafted set of psych-tinged folk-pop inflected with various Latin styles, hip hop and more, featuring a warm, sometimes playful sound combining guitars, keyboards and occasional strings, vibraphone and other instrumentation with bilingual lyrics and wistful melodies. - KEXP
A quietly influential indie artist with ramshackle recordings that cast a wide net across an ocean of music history, Juan Wauters keeps the spark alive on his latest album. - FADER
On June 2, beloved Uruguay-born songwriter Juan Wauters, shared his new album, Wandering Rebel, via Captured Tracks. The album features many other familiar female collaborators like Frankie Cosmos, Y La Bamba, and Zoe Gotusso. The album as a whole is anchored in Juan’s signature Latin-influenced indie folk.
Today, Juan shares his video for album focus track “Millionaire," a wry commentary on Los Angeles culture. Directed by Fatos Marishta, the video follows Wauters getting ready for a night out and ends in a humorous twist. Watch below...
Juan Wauters - Millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7iWEUon80
There's freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters may not have agreed with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of staying in one place: “During COVID I discovered / that I like stability,” he muses on the title track of his new album, “but the world still sees me / as a wandering rebel.” His most introspective work to date, Wauters’ sixth solo album Wandering Rebel finds the artist taking stock of how he’s changed, how the world sees him, and what he wants out of life.
From his early days as a founding member of Queens-based garage act The Beets to his impressive solo career, Wauters has spent the better part of the last decade on the road. When he wasn’t touring or recording, he was gathering material, traversing Latin America to write his 2019 Spanish-language opus La Onda de Juan Pablo, then heading North to collaborate with friends like Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim and more for 2021’s boisterous Real Life Situations. Apart from intermissions in his home base of Jackson Heights, Queens, Wauters has been notoriously hard to pin down.
Throughout Wandering Rebel, Wauters attempts to reconcile the stability he’s come to enjoy with the nomadic restlessness that’s characterized his life thus far. In the end, though, it’s the interplay of both of these elements that makes the album so strong. Though it’s marked by introspectivity, it was recorded in classic Wauters fashion, with numerous collaborators on trips to New York, LA, Brazil and Argentina. At the same time, its cohesion is owed to a period of reflection that’s only possible in repose. Wauters’ moments of honest self-reflection lend depth to his penchant for playful musical experimentation, while his ever-growing network of collaborators across the globe add nuance and fluidity to his songwriting.
For a brief period during the writing process, Wauters spent a month alone in a remote Uruguayan beach town, armed with only an iPad (which he charged using a solar panel) and his thoughts. In the end, only one song from this stint made it onto Wandering Rebel (“Mensaje Codificado”), but somehow the entire album feels as if it’s written from this vantage point: an artist, back in his home country, looking out at the world and considering the life that’s led him there. The album is anchored in Juan’s signature Latin-influenced indie folk.
Album Order
https://juanwauters.ffm.to/wanderingrebel.opr
Tracklist
1. Eloping
2. Milanesa al Pan (ft. Zoe Gotusso)
3. Nube Negra (ft. Y La Bamba)
4. Amor, Amor
5. Modus Operandi (ft. Frankie Cosmos)
6. Bolero (ft. Super Willy K)
7. Mensaje Codificado
8. Millionaire
9. Wandering Rebel (ft. John Carroll Kirby)
10. Carriage
11. Let Loose
12. En Un Barrio De Montevideo
