Mikal Cronin, “Seeker” (Merge Records). The new guitar-rock album from the native Southern Californian was born in solitude after a series of busted-up relationships and a creeping sense that, in his words, “I needed to clean up, to stop leaning on external crutches to get through the anxiety. I needed to grow the … up.”
“…“Here Comes the Cowboy” is the gap-toothed troubadour’s first album to be distributed through a major label, the Universal Music Group-owned Caroline. After issuing EPs and three low-key, psychedelic-tinged albums for the Brooklyn indie Captured Tracks, and accumulating an enviable fan base through relentless touring and endearing live shows, DeMarco is now calling his own shots via his new imprint, Mac’s Record Label…”
“Despite DeMarco’s wacky onstage antics, he remains low-key. He wrote and recorded the eight tracks by himself in his new home in Far Rockaway, Queens…”
A shaggy-headed Mikal Cronin delivered catchy, acid-drenched rock to the gathered masses Saturday afternoon.
young singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco delivered a rousing set of smart songs that had his growing fan base screaming along. His “Ode to Viceroy” was a love song to his favorite cigarette.
Those looking for evidence that the annual FYF Fest had hit an afternoon peak found it during songwriter Ty Segall’s set.
“The band played a forceful bunch of songs — at least judging by the four final ones that I saw — that drove the tightly focused, crowd-surfing fans to adrenaline levels unimaginable the morning earlier…”
