a friend who knew him growing up in edmonton said he was kind of full of himself but ultimately a nice enough kid and a bit crazy
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, 4 March 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
god, man. 2 is such a melancholic re-listen. also one of the best albums of this decade.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
the one he put out last year, 'Another One', is by far his best imo. the songs are great but it's produced so well, dude is becoming a really skilled engineer... 2 sounds really thin compared to Another One... it augurs well for his next record. dude gets a lot of hate - friend of mine (gen x) derisively refers to him as the 'chillwave Billy Joel' - but even if you don't dig the songs, he's not only a meme or one trick pony...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i never thought of him as a meme or anything. maybe the personality plays into it? but when you have that much talent i don't think you can sorta just "sell things" on your personality. he's just a very talented songwriter at the end of the day.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
apparently he just finished a new album. really excited for it.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/a13bbf712d363096c1b80f06ced2f59f/tumblr_nwygvvN8AG1slv4a7o1_500.jpg
he's a cartoon character, he can be identified thru silhouette: oxford shirt, floppy hat, cigarette. it's the most you could ask for in a career as a singer/songwriter. i don't think he ever put much thought into his 'look' w/r/t marketing, he organically became a fashion/lifestyle icon for younger millennials. i see people all the time that copped his style. and yes they do dig his songs. stoked to hear his new record
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
great style looking like a random dad at anytime in the 90s. or suburban parents having a night out at the baseball game. this is normcore, i take it? yawwwwwwn
anyways i thought his style was wearing a sweater under a pair of half-buttoned overalls?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
overthinking plus generalizing, there. it's just a dude wearing some simple gear. unlike you know... ninety percent of frilly indie bands from the last decade in beards and ironed dress shirts.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
kurt cobain was such a dad!
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
mac will be a great dad, one day. i think.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
cobain was an anti-capitalist grandpa
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
mac demarco has had a similar effect on fashion proportional to his popularity as kurt cobain did. it's not just normcore, it's a very specific: shapeless baseball cap, cigs, fuckin long t-shirts, and vans. not knocking him, this isn't the sort of thing you can plan or work toward, sometimes it just happens. he's a meme by his own admission.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
cigarettes being trendy i never thought i'd see the day.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i could make a bunch of comparisons between kurt and mac that would probably piss a lot of people off. but you know... non-affected-ness, genuine spirit. yadda yadda. of course people are gonna look up to the dude and dress like him. he doesn't gvie a fuck.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
think he's pretty anti-capitalistic too for the most part. at least what i've gleamed from interviews.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
(the baseball caps are dumb as shit on most people, i will add)
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
http://dontpaniconline.com/media/magazine/660x420/e0fa7bb4188914e6d3b127c3fe99a34f.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f367/SirDrexl/OriolesCap.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
im with you hackshaw, there are a lot of similarities, and a similar sense of intimacy/you feel like you know him...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ezl_aqFdwbI/hqdefault.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/59230-mac-demarco-just-finished-mixing-the-new-disc/
who's that dude with him? looks like richard d james
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
That's shags chamberlain, part of a pink's touring band
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
oh word, is he the drummer that wears the big russian hat?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
a more acoustic album would be so good, actually. there's a bunch of fan curated ones on youtube that are good enough though. killer vocalist even with the cigarette abuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQ7oXXykSM
― hackshaw, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
the one he put out last year, 'Another One', is by far his best imo.
really? I couldn't make it through 2 listens. my gf, who really likes everything he did prior, didn't dig it either
― flopson, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
love the title track of the new one, looking forward to this: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1430-mac-demarco-on-his-chill-new-album-this-old-dog/
http://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best/unnamed_1_jw9uhi/mac-demarco-this-old-dog.jpg
This Old Dog
01 My Old Man02 This Old Dog03 Baby Youβre Out04 For the First Time05 One Another06 Still Beating07 Sister08 Dreams From Yesterday09 A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes10 One More Love Song11 On the Level12 Moonlight on the River13 Watching Him Fade Away
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 February 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
looking fwd
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
he likes moving cities a lot hey
edmonton>vancouver>montreal>new york>l.a.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
he probably had to leave new york because he gave out his fucking address at the end of his last album
i mean i doubt there's a mark david chapman out there for mac but damn dude... risky much?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 February 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
πππ
whew, relieved to find out the new mac demarco album is chill thanks pfork
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
haha
it does seem even more chilled than the last one, enjoying that sc stream
― niels, Friday, 3 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
i haven't listened to the title track in weeks, and it's been stuck in my head all morning. i find his music very moving in spite of his irritating extramusical attributes/activities...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 8 April 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
it's def some pretty emotional and romantic stuff, I think he pulls it off v well
― niels, Saturday, 8 April 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
yeah, really mature too- complete opposite of his public persona/caricature
― flappy bird, Saturday, 8 April 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
a lot of his songs have an incredible emotional depth to them that a lot of people gloss over. but.. that's been the case since he started.
― hackshaw, Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
deep (and sometimes strange) melancholy hidden under sunny laidback jams
― hackshaw, Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
I find his goofball persona charming and don't mind the contrast to his songs, maybe I even respect the songs more because he doesn't do a lot of talking their content up
much prefer a goofball to a dickhead
― niels, Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
surprised people still give a fuck about real estate tbh. they're the "less demarco" to me now
― hackshaw, Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
actually i guess it's not entirely comparable... since mac's music is very upfront vocally (sometimes with post-punk influences like on 2) and real estate tend to be tied to that shins/whispy white guy brand of indie rocking.
― hackshaw, Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
just got the new record in the mail, finishing my first listen now... it's kind of front-loaded and loses steam... but "This Old Dog" is probably the best song he's written yet, besides some of the stuff on Another One. feel like a lot of these songs might take a while to sink in, everything sort of blends together... the one that sticks out on side 2 is "On the Level"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
not a lot of interest in ol' mac on ilx. i suppose there aren't that many teenagers here.
i haven't heard the new one yet. i like all his records but honestly think of rock'n'roll nightclub, 2, salad days as both a chronological and ranking order. that said i do like the direction of the new stuff - as far as i can tell form this old dog and my old man
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
love salad days and every single from the new one, looking forward to it!
― niels, Thursday, 4 May 2017 06:50 (six years ago) link
(also I believe we agreed upthread that mac's lyrical content is indeed very mature, but even if that were not the case ilx has never been averse to music targeted at teenagers afaik)
― niels, Thursday, 4 May 2017 06:53 (six years ago) link
yeah but ilx historically stans for music for teenagers that teenagers don't actually listen to or things that are chart hits
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 May 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
as in there are more people on ilx listening to the latest carly rae jepsen album than kids
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 May 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
he he
― niels, Thursday, 4 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
It's weird how different the guy's public image and persona is from how his music actually sounds. You'd expect irreverent, Dead Milkmen-esque joke punk from his persona, but he's really a classicist who loves gentle, lilting melodies and a good major 7th chord.
The new album is pretty good, there are a couple ballads on the back half that are as good as anything that he's ever done.
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 May 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
and he plays everything! and records and mixes his own records! and they sound fucking great.
what's with this "mini-album" shit anyway? in my mind, 'This Old Dog' is his fifth album.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 May 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
but yeah, he's closer to a Jim O'Rourke than...idk, FIDLAR or Wavves or whatever shit you'd associate with "lol pizza 90s larfs." even Ariel Pink's personality comes out a lot in his music. but there's a total split w/ Mac's persona and his music.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 May 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link