Part of the appeal of 2 was that it felt so intimate – the songs shimmered with a warmth, casualness, and humor that played like you were sprawled on a beaten couch in a close friend’s garage, listening to the guys jam and goof off. “Daddy’s in the basement, cooking up something fine / While Rick’s out on the pavement, flipping it for dimes / If there’s anything redeeming, I haven’t seen it yet / And I’m still up at midnight, chewing nicorette.” A thin blanket of melancholy rests just over some of his best work, like a layer black ice on a sidewalk that’s invisible and ready to bust your ass if you stumble into it unprepared.Īs early as “Cookin’ Up Somethin’ Good” on his breakthrough album 2, DeMarco was singing about a dysfunctional home life, but with a rubbery cheeriness as if he was in “The Brady Bunch”. He is, by his own admission, a regular guy who likes to sing about regular stuff.Įxcept, beyond the surface-level shenanigans that have come to define him to many, there have always been hints that there is more to the man than his stage presence. He’s charming, in a goofy, off-kilter, gap-toothed kind of way. His live sets are littered with inside jokes, he’s liable to play a jangly AC/DC cover at any moment, and he looks like he just climbed out of sleeping bag in a cave. I’m Italian, so I guess this is an Italian rock record.” Look out for the album to release May 5 on Captured Tracks and listen to the title track below.You could argue that Mac DeMarco has made a career for himself through the intimacy he’s developed with his fans more than any other factor. This is my acoustic album, but it’s not really an acoustic album at all. Continuing the statement, he says “this is a new thing for me. Recorded with acoustic guitar and synthesizers, the album has a definite more ripened sound. When that happens, you really get to know the songs. But this time, I wrote them and they sat. Usually I just write, record, and put it out no problem.
But then I realized that moving to a new city, and starting a new life takes time. In a press release he acknowledges as much: “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving to the West Coast I thought I’d get to finishing it quickly. Written just before DeMarco relocated from Queens to LA, the latest effort marks a new, more polished direction for the Canadian singer-songwriter, who allowed the tracks to simmer before releasing. Everyone’s favorite goof slash secret sentimentalist, Mac DeMarco has announced his new album, This Old Dog, the follow-up to his 2015 mini-LP Another One.
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