His fingers simplistically slipping between discordant chord patterns, while the bass blares loud, skipping gently between the notes. Without using language more complex than “This Old Man,” by Tori Amos, DeMarco simply exhales his surprisingly insightful lyrics into basic song structures. The lyrics, “for he can’t be me // look how old and cold and tired // and lonely he’s become,” followed by lighthearted admission to the fact that he’s “seeing more of old man,” in himself. DeMarco making light of an existential crisis made for a playful and tongue-in-cheek response to it. Starting the album with, “My Old Man,” with each cigarette, he breathes new life into millenial clichés, such as already feeling elderly at age 25. The machine itself fit so effortlessly into his loafing, jangly acoustic guitar, even among stylistic, cleanly recorded drums. The newly refined artist spent some time setting up his studio, and playing around with a drum machine, causing him to push the release date. The move inspired a different kind of release for DeMarco, slowing down his process, with more time between when he wrote the songs and the debut.
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When Mac DeMarco moved from Queens to LA to release, “This Old Dog,” his fifth album in just over half a decade, he brought with him a handful of demos that he’d written in New York. Released on May 5th, Mac DeMarco‘s This Old Dog is a tender, close look at “family… depression, anxiety,” and the juxtaposition between these emotions and happiness, something that, according to Mac DeMarco “everybody goes through – unless you have your eyes closed your whole life.” As usual, making large statements that are simultaneously ironic and insightful.
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