…I heard Mac DeMarco’s brand-new album “Salad Days” for the first time and thought: Yes. I get this. The laid-back grooviness, the moments of introspection undermined by cheeky apathy and hints of l’enfant terrible.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
…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.
Mac DeMarco and Sharon Van Etten lead the list of new additions for Gothenburg, Sweden’s Way Out West Festival.
DeMarco isn’t a greenhorn – he’s been recording and releasing raunchy rock ‘n’ roll for five years, first under the great pseudonym Makeout Videotape, and now simply as himself. Salad Days is his third release for Captured Tracks…
Recorded at Jizz Jazz studio, Salad Days finds DeMarco returning to the AM warble and warped guitars that made his previous records such a success, while delving into deeper sonic and lyrical territories with vintage keyboards…
Complètement barré, bien fêlé et extrêmement drôle en plus d’être un songwriter hors pair, Mac Demarco cumule les bons points et l’on voit l’engouement grandir avec raison ces derniers temps.
Jovial sleaze-pop solo artist Mac DeMarco may only be 23 years old, but over time he’s slowly become one of the defining voices of his generation, thanks to his 2012 debut Rock and Roll Nightclub and its subsequent follow-up, 2.
On his ever-so-aptly titled third studio LP Salad Days, Mac DeMarco has tossed away his adolescence like an old crummy pack of viceroy cigarettes.
Gap-toothed charmer Mac DeMarco is streaming his new album ‘Salad Days’ in full ahead of its 31st March (UK) and 1st April (US) release on Captured Tracks.
Canadian slacker-rock musician Mac DeMarco is airing his new album online. Following on from 2012′s breakthrough LP, 2, this new effort Salad Days will drop on Captured Tracks next week.
Músico canadense mostra um pouco de como será o novo disco, Salad Days, que é previsto para chegar às lojas em 2014. A faixa-título mostra que ele seguirá por uma sonoridade similar ao álbum 2.
With his new album Salad Days dropping 31 March, Mac’s been a busy dude. And while we think he appreciated us breaking the monotony of the press grind with these silly questions, he seemed a little miffed that we’d woken him up at 11am.
