![]() This is music made for long and lazy summer evenings, for slowing down and appreciating life instead of the rushing and worrying we’re encouraged to do by so much of popular culture. These often seem like jazzy lounge-style songs, put through a psychedelic, stoned filter, producing a totally unique sound and providing the perfect backdrop to DeMarco’s understated vocals. This lends DeMarco’s music a strange quality that teeters between the comfortable and the unpredictable. However, despite the utter lack of showiness in the music, the chord sequences are memorable, inventive, and often subtly evoke jazz (the piano in “Just to Put Me Down” being a prime example). ![]() Everything about this music screams (or rather, mumbles) restraint and simplicity. Like Salad Days, this album has its fair share of jangle in the guitars (seriously, DeMarco’s now-distinctive warm guitar tones are second to none), alongside tasteful bluesy licks. DeMarco’s music typically centres around melodic guitar and laid-back vocals played at a restrained pace, and this album doesn’t stray far from the typical Mac DeMarco sound that his devoted fans have come to know and love. Today I’ve been listening to Another One, the new album (or “mini-album” as it’s been called) from Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco, whose 2014 album Salad Days I enjoyed immensely.
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