On Thursday, June 25th at 2pm, Dog Gamut speaks with Chicago based artist, Evann McIntosh, before they play The Independent in SF on June 27th.
Evann McIntosh’s sophomore album, Fantasy Fuel, is a ten-track record about desire, projection, miscommunication, and the choice to move forward instead of staying stuck.
Anchored by focus track “Better” featuring Meshell Ndegeocello, Fantasy Fuel finds Evann stepping outside the insular world that defined their early work and into something more collaborative, rhythm-forward, and emotionally exposed. Written between Chicago and Los Angeles and produced with Abe Rounds (Joni Mitchell, Blake Mills), the album reflects a period of physical and creative relocation. That movement is central to the record’s identity.
After stepping back from the rapid rise of their breakout EP MOJO, Evann relocated to Chicago and began writing from a new vantage point. The city’s rich musical lineage seeps into the record’s looseness and jazz-inflected grooves. That evolution is echoed in the collaborators on the project, including Ndegeocello and Madison Cunningham, signaling a maturation of sound without abandoning instinct.
