The flip side of this though is that you sometimes wonder whether DeMarco is getting a little too settled into a comfort zone. Pleasing for the stoner crowd too no doubt. Playing slow and measured is a real skill and something DeMarco is really starting to excel at. ‘For The First Time’ recalls another familiar side of this artist to those that know him, the cheap keyboard sounds flailing around a rich-sounding bass guitar before we go back into acoustic groove territory with ‘One Another’.Īnother endearing quality of Mac DeMarco is he’s not afraid to slow things down in an age where much music that fits into the rock and pop bracket, especially that aimed at a young audience, is often served up at a high thumping tempo leaving not much room for the music to really breathe. It’s on songs like these that I could really imagine DeMarco straying into Dr John territory at some point. OK this is hardly a song suddenly setting off at a breakneck speed but it does retain a quirky groove that might remind you of certain tracks on the album 2. By track 3 there’s something of a break from the melancholy with ‘Baby You’re Out’. Before that we have the track ‘My Old Man’ a very honest opener with some delightful electronic meanderings backing it all up. It really conjures up ‘Out On The Weekend’ and the aforementioned album in general one could argue. Listen to the way in which the kick and snare snap and drift through the arrangement before the pedal steel (real or midi it’s hard to tell these days) woozes in and out. Well, not only do I share his love of that particular record, but I’d also assert his adoration of the Harvest sound sometimes shines through in his work, not least on the title track. DeMarco has openly stated his love for Neil Young’s output, in particular the album ‘Harvest’.

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