Mac DeMarco took the stage at the Empty Bottle in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village Wednesday night, just one short day after the release of his highly anticipated album “Salad Days.”
Ezra Furman is an indie songwriter and native Chicagoan. He has a very unique style of songwriting, and the sound is passionate garage punk pop with R&B sensibilities.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a band doing it right in the 2010s, possessing tangible savvy and consistently shifting stylistic focus. Emerging from their formative stint as a collective they consolidated their lineup of seven…
DeMarco’s trademark laid-back style, however, remains a high point of Salad Days. His music has a groovy, 70s-era vibe that shines through on this album
The critics might have branded his music “slacker-pop” but there’s no knocking Mac DeMarco’s work ethic: latest LP Salad Days was written and recorded in little more than a month.
Thee Oh Sees are set to release a new album later this month despite recently announcing plans to take an extended break. Now, you can hear the title-track from said release.
Criticized for his immature antics by some, revered for his refusal to behave like an “adult” by others, Mac DeMarco is the closest thing we urban twenty-somethings have to a modern day Peter Pan.
…DeMarco’s new album is also ostensibly one where the chill bro gets all mature and stuff, and here his inner conflicts return with a suitably nonchalant vengeance. The title track undercuts its narrator’s worries about aging…
It’s these dissonant bits that elevate DeMarco’s easily digestible pop, the reason his single “Passing Out Pieces” will be one of the most memorable moments in indie rock this year.
While everything Mac DeMarco played was recognizable, nothing sounded as simple or pure as the album versions. He played most of the songs faster and they sounded weirder..
“Salad Days” is the second full-length album from Mac DeMarco, and it sounds like the 23-year-old is grappling with growing up. The image of DeMarco is almost at odds with his music.
The two songs we’ve heard from Thee Oh Sees’ forthcoming Drop spanned a vast aesthetic distance; “Penetrating Eye” was a gnarly unhinged riff monster, while “The Lens” was a subdued and pretty psych ballad.
“The Lens” is the latest video from Thee Oh Sees. The song is the last track on their new LP, Drop, which is out April 19. Fun fact: The album was recorded in a banana-ripening warehouse. Check out the clip for “The Lens” below.
And if these are indeed his so-called Salad Days, then having produced something that is so completely seductive in its own insouciant, laid-back way, long may they continue.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s freakadelic opus is a tunnelling cosmic jam that pushes out past the 15-minute mark, and it has certainly become the Surf Coast group’s emphatic trump card.
A Q & A with Mac DeMarco. Find out where he got the album name Salad Days
…DeMarco is embracing the future with more than a little hesitation. But in his own unique way, Mac DeMarco helps us remember that time and time again, the kids pull through, however unorthodox their methods may be.
So while some find his behavior repugnant, others are enthralled with his youthful abandon; either way, within the often faceless world of modern guitar rock, DeMarco demands attention by not giving a fuck.
Selon ce dernier, d’étranges rumeurs égrènent l’existence de Mac DeMarco. Il prend pour exemple celle qui l’envoie dormir nu dans un sac poubelle, tartiné de Vaseline dans le but de collecter des billes de sueur pure pour un radical exercice d’hydratation.
Canadian down-‘n’-outer Mac DeMarco is one of the most gifted modern songwriters going. Expect new album ‘Salad Days’ to reinforce that reputation.
California’s Thee OhSees’ new album ‘Drop’ will, err, drop on April 19. Expect musical colours every bit as vibrant and psychedelic as the record’s cartoon sleeve.
Mac DeMarco might be the wild and crazy showman on stage, but Salad Days shows there’s plenty of tenderness behind that shit-eating, gap-toothed grin.
Written after a year and a half of non-stop touring, Salad Days is full of DeMarco’s warped-and-surfy guitar lines running parallel to his casually delivered vocals.
Thee Oh Sees are still not off their indefinite hiatus yet. Though San Francisco’s sweethearts may be on a long-deserved break, that doesn’t mean they haven’t been productive. Case in point: their new video for “The Lens”…
With a return to the main Ty Segall Band lineup featuring Mikal Cronin on guitar, Charlie Moonhart on bass, and Emily Rose Epstein on drums, the band played in full electric glory. The set pulled from multiple albums…
…DeMarco is hardly the first artist in recent years to bear the mark of an infatuation with My Bloody Valentine, but rather than going for straightforward distortion-laden pastiche, he applies their pitch-bending sound to music…
Being pegged as class clown on his previous solo outings… likely shaped the mind state in which we find DeMarco here. Without the attention-grabbing antics, his core sound hasn’t changed much.
Fear not though, DeMarco still puts the cool back in the cigarette, happily manipulates his old beat up guitar through seemingly effortless valleys of picking and plucking, and grounds us all with his unpretentious prose.
Mikal Cronin, the Bay Area scuzz-rocker who recently contributed to the new Thee Oh Sees album and released his second album, MCII, last year, is releasing a single titled “Soul In Motion” as the A-side of the LAMC 7″.
If you’ve been keeping up with Mikal Cronin’s discography, you’ll be quick to note that on the A-side of his new LAMC single (out April 1 via Famous Class), some less-than-familiar elements crop up.
