Our darling Mac DeMarco hosted a BBQ listening party this Wednesday to play his new record. His new ‘mini-album’ Some Other Ones was played from a set of semi-functioning car speakers, whilst Maccy offered up BBQ food in exchange for food bank donations. This is all very appropriate considering that the full 9-track album is meant to accompany convivial gatherings; it is a soundtrack for eating. Imagine heaving down 3 kilos of cooked-to-cardboard (love you dad) steak as DeMarco’s sweet voice slinks about with his guitar. Or perhaps you would rather a 9 course degustation with each dish tailored to the sonic texture of a specific song from the album.

Unfortunately, we are in the middle of a whitewalker-cold winter, so Mac DeMarco’s light, sun-flecked tunes can only be listened to with a heavy air irony (it was his plan all along). So make sure you pop on Some Other Ones when you wake up with violent hypothermic shakes at midnight. It will make you feel better. Trust me, it’s Mac at his best.

The absolute angel that is Mac DeMarco has just released a new song The Way You’d Love Her, set to appear on his 8-song mini LP, Another One, due for release on August 7th.

This is another classic stoner love song from DeMarco. Featuring jazzy guitar and bluesy melodies, it is a continuation of the same vibe we saw in Salad Days. DeMarco’s style has been described as ‘slacker rock’ and this song fits perfectly within that sort of pseudo-genre. As always DeMarco plays all of the instruments himself, and has recorded the LP in his home studio. If you want to see how this was done, and I’m sure you do, you can watch the ‘making of’ video, here.

If you love Mac DeMarco as much as I love Mac DeMarco, then you will love this song, because it’s classic Mac DeMarco. (Sorry for saying Mac DeMarco so many times).

Another One Tracklist

  1. “The Way You’d Love Her”
    2. “Another One”
    3. “No Other Heart”
    4. “Just To Put Me Down”
    5. “A Heart Like Hers”
    6. “I’ve Been Waiting For Her”
    7. “Without Me”
    8. “My House By The Water”

 

After dominating many end of year lists with his album Salad Days last year, appearing on just about every festival line up around the world and potentially exhausting the world’s supply of tobacco, Mac DeMarco has made his return to the scene today with the announcement of a mini-LP titled Another One.


…I love the Internet

In case you were wondering the creative process behind the new release, how Mac records or even just how good he is at a “real” New York accent, you are in luck! Accompanying the announcement is a short “promo” video, filmed by Mac’s girlfriend Kiera McNally. It’s a hilarious home video that I may or may not have watched a more than a few times in the last half hour…

Mac is still on his extended world tour, and was recently in Australia for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival (you can read our review of the Sydney and Brisbane events here). Another One is set to be released August 7th via Spunk Records.

Another One:

01 The Way You’d Love Her
02 Another One
03 No Other Heart
04 Just Put Me Down
05 A Heart Like Hers
06 I’ve Been Waiting For Her
07 Without Me
08 My House by the Water

We caught Mac DeMarco‘s Laneway sideshow in Sydney last week. Needless to say, it was interesting, entertaining, and a hell of a lot of fun. Here’s five important things we learnt from the man himself:

  1. Mac DeMarco is Peter Pan. He is every young boy’s fantasy come to life, in a legionnaires hat and with a sick bloody guitar, the man takes your childhood, brings it to the present, then makes it much cooler with real life rock ‘n’ roll. If you would like to attend Mac’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightclub, do not grow up.
  1. The crowd(y) is rowdy. The mosh moves in screams for the talented bastard, sing-a-longs and puffs of smoke. To be fair, the rowdiness may have been encouraged by the man on stage chanting, ‘Tits out for the boys’ in a quasi-ocker accent (sorry Wendy).
  1. Just because the crowd is a little off balance does not mean the performance is. Mac catered to old and new fans with killer tracks from each of his three albums. Expect to hear opener, Salad Days as well as Cookin’ Up Something Good, Blue Boy, I’m A Man, the tune “for the next album”, and Ode To Viceroy as particular highlights. Each song, no matter how old, was so fresh and so well known to Mac’s guitar that he could play it blindfolded and with the boundless energy of nailing it for the first time. There was also the perfect amount of attention to his top-tier band (feat. new guitarist) who freakin’ nailed the 15 minute long, raging instrumentals while ol’ mate DeMarco crowdsurfed up to the top of the theatre and round to side of stage.
  1. MILFS allowed. One particular birthing machine, Agnes DeMarco, came on stage for a reggae jam and nailed it. Bring yo mama to the club, she gets it.
  1. Antics are a feature of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightclub. To truly experience the pepperoni playboy lifestyle, have a bottle of Jameson by your side. Also, come back for an encore shirtless beneath your overalls, bring 15 year olds on stage to wingman the shit out of them, crowd surf, dance like you’re in the cuckoo’s nest and just generally do frothworthy shit.

What you gonna do with that, Bon Iver?

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