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“I’ve Been Waiting For Her” has a danceable groove to it while “A Heart Like Hers” shows Mac going in a slow, sad ballad direction. In addition, Mac brings some nice moody keys on tracks like “Another One.” All the songs here are about love or heartbreak, but Mac does a great job at selling the topic with his emotion and his relatable character. Mac’s jangly guitar-tone is pretty consistently heard throughout this EP. Although just a short eight tracks, each song here (except perhaps the closer, “My House By The Water”) has a good song at its core and well-produced instrumentation to back it up. In short, “Another One” fastens Mac’s stranglehold on this style on music. Mac does the sound justice better than nearly anyone out there. Stoners of the world united in celebrating that album and I did too. Songs like “Blue Boy” and “Salad Days” struck me as being particularly concise pop tunes while successfully sporting a ’60s psychedelic pop flavor with a modern indie twist. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Mac’s 2014 album “Salad Days.” Although the songs were simple, the album presented an overall lazy-day air to it and the production and guitar tone were infectious. In my opinion one of the musicians who pulls this process off the best has to be Mac DeMarco. It’s commonplace to hear bands use lo-fi quality recording and delve up cheesy ’80s synth noises in order to sound kitsch and to keep with the recent trend. With each new project, the Mac formula becomes more refined and solidified, although there is always a new flavour in the mix or a unique method of presenting his innate style.Since the turn of the century, an ever-growing number of indie bands have been surfacing all across the world, striving for a “retro” aesthetic. He has honed his craft to a T and This Old Dog adds to the impression that he has a plethora of infectious songs up his sleeve, waiting to take shape over the course of a release.
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Perhaps we will see him move into the realm of songwriting for others in the future. The album is a display of pure songwriting skill, Demarco hinting at being a modern day Cat Stevens in the making. Closer ‘ Watching Him Fade Away’ shows Mac talking to himself about his father’s illness, and the album is largely a personal reflection over this relationship.
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‘ Dreams From Yesterday’ is the album’s standout heartwrenching moment whilst the seven minute opus ‘Moonlight on the River’ descends into Demarco’s most experimental passage on the album, complete with delay heavy, reverb laden feedback before cutting out unexpectedly to an incoherent voice. This is somewhat of a departure from his previous work as these guitars are meticulously balanced with synth lines throughout the majority of This Old Dog. ‘Still Beating’ retains Mac’s classic clean electric guitar sound, while the prevalence of acoustic guitar in his newer output continues. On ‘For The First Time’, Demarco puts the guitar down, building the song on a sultry bass line and phasing synth decoration akin to that which he enlisted on ‘Chamber of Reflection’ from Salad Days. The words of ’Baby You’re Out’ may read like an apathetic goodbye to a lover, but the sound is classic joyful Mac. While both teaser cuts deal with heavier themes, they only display one facet of the emotions and expressions Mac puts forth on the rest of the album.ĭespite the album’s inspiration being borne from a sombre place, pure joy emanates from many of the songs. Both songs were released simultaneously in anticipation of the album and are slow burners concerned with the illness of Mac’s somewhat estranged father. Opening track ’My Old Man’ deals with the realisation that we become more and more like our parents with age & ’This Old Dog’ also grapples with the concept of growing older. As has become customary for the Canadian born musician, he self-produced and played all the instruments, with some mixing assistance from Shags Chamberlain (The Smallgoods). This Old Dog is being released through Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks, though its recording saw Demarco leave his adopted home of New York and decamp to Los Angeles, where he now resides.
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Full of lyrical mac-isms and packed out with enough guitar melodies to last you through till next time, this is what we have come to expect from Demarco. ON his third official album outing This Old Dog, Mac Demarco presents another solid collection of tracks that don’t deviate too far from his trademark sound.