

On his albums though, he was able to turn his pension for being funny and made great music out of it. Numerous on-stage antics have led to him having a pretty interesting reputation. For novices, we recommend a dose of Salad Days (2014) or Mac DeMarco 2 (2012). Mac Demarco has had a pension for being a pretty silly guy. It considers how his use of social media jars with the sentimental lyrics beneath his care-free hipster exterior. The wonder boy of the American indie scene certainly hasn’t forgotten his schoolboy humor, offbeat stories, radiant second-hand guitars or his wobbly synths, though the general tone of this album was marked by a certain detachment, even a slightly pensive mood… Since the original album was already more acoustic than his previous records, these stripped-back Old Dog Demos, published in September 2018, will only further convince hardcore Mac fans. This is a review of Mac DeMarco's fifth LP, again written for the University newspaper. Time for This Old Dog that appeared in May 2017, a viscerally melancholic album. It’s the for fans only cream pie series that Mac DeMarco amuses himself with every year: releasing the demos from his previous album. That’s a pleasant upgrade from DeMarco’s 2015 mini-album Another One, which was full of woozy, seasick guitar parts that sounded as if he recorded them at one speed and added different instruments at another. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Accordingly, This Old Dog is a moody, mellow collection built around acoustic guitar and synthesizers. The latest, 2017’s This Old Dog, was the longtime tape devotee’s first full foray into digital recording, and it’s the sharpest refinement yet of DeMarco’s nonchalant sense of craft.
