Written before and recorded after his cross-country move from Queens to Los Angeles the LP has given the man-boy a chance to reflect on something he could never truly grasp.
MAC DEMARCO FOR THE FIRST TIME MAC
Not happy with being labelled as a one-trick pony, ‘A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ has harmonica and guitar fighting for the spotlight while ‘One More Love Song’ gets all funk and soul.īut where the album really gets interesting is when Mac looks at his own life. This Old Dog even shows off his incredible genre-spanning sound.
‘For The First Time’ is DeMarco at his cheesiest synthy-balladry marks every note and the lyrics are a little ‘chocolate box’ sweet, but it still seems to ring true. The imperious emotion of love streams through almost every song on the 13-track album. It feels too lightweight in the current climate, it feels a little too easily done and without the right feeling behind it the Slacker Rock, which Mac made mainstream, can be easily dismissed.īut Mac is fighting back without throwing a single punch as this album gets all floaty on the strong winds of two themes love and family. Slacker rock has taken a bit of a battering recently. This Old Dog is his most laid back album yet, but in many ways his most stark. Long past are the dark days of Rock and Roll Nightclub, DeMarco has grown and moved his best moments from the underbelly of greasy Friday nights to the gleaming sun of a porch on Sunday afternoon. But for me, another new album from Mac DeMarco, the goofball king of indie (a title which harms him more than he knows), means another Sunday afternoon sorted. I can already hear the nuanced connoisseurs of music trying to tell me otherwise, trying to yell that they want the old Mac back, they want the troubadour stuck in the gutter back, they want what they can’t have, essentially.
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