pretty crazy that he's giving people an open invitation/free license, though. i foresee reading an interview next album cycle where he's complaining about the weirdos who kept showing up at 3am or whatever
― soyrev, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
This strikes me as a funny modern version of Dylan going out to meet Woody Guthrie after hitting New York. I guess they were the damn dirty hipsters of their day, weren't they...
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 08:16 (eight years ago) link
to put it simply:
i think kids just still relate to a dirty looking guy making cheap records in his basement and getting wasted five minutes before showtime.
^ what made him a horror during Pitchfork Festival.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
I wandered into his set at Bonnaroo while he giving a few songs to his goofball guitarist. Couldn't really make heads or tails of the whole scene. I stayed for a few of Mac's own songs too, and they were fine. Definitely seemed like he was selling this whole zany package rather than just the music. Like an indie-rock Primus or something.
― something totally new, itโs the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Primus comparison is spot-on.
I enjoyed the last two albums, but his Pitchfork performance was embarrassing.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
srsly with that shirt and his mannerisms he looked and sounded like the singer of a telenovela theme from the mid eighties
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
these are all things that imo further obfuscate his appeal, not explain it...just another of mac's many riddles that keep him in our hearts
― soyrev, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Xp lol alfred
i played a shitty loft show with makeout videotape like 5 or 6 years and they were pretty wasted. i only saw him play as mac demarco once at a free show and the venue was packed to the gills with euphoric crowdsurfing teens. i left after 2 songs cause there was no oxygen and i felt old but the sound was perfectly fine and he seemed sober
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
makeout videotape was the best thing he did imo
feel like it had more of the Women-esque canadian noise rock thing going on. and then he switched it up to be in with the trends
anybody who likes his songwriting but wishes it wasn't so soft and lackadaisical,
check out "Ying Yang"
― hackshaw, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I like the last thing he put out, it was just a set of instrumentals, had a strong McCartney I vibe to it. It's funny because as trashy/dirty as his image is the songs always sound really clean and professional. It was just a bunch of 3-chord 3-minute demos like you do when you are writing and you just make up a chord progression and work on it for a few hours.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
i find the recordings pretty sloppy actually. also re: the comment above that he should "get a drummer" he plays drums himself on the recordings
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=195&v=ghGUZvcEHew
Funny dude. Strong Paul Scheer vibe. Probably cause of the gap teeth.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
here's an embed
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
or not
Last year's left me cold. This one, I like. Weird.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
^ ditto. he's a great songwriter/producer
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
this dude is pretty cool, like funky west coast kurt vile. i'm down.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
there's something good about this guy but there's also something about him I don't like, his smug mug and the way it comes through in his songs
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
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 Youโre 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
๐๐๐
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