“All the stuff on the album for the most part is first take – maybe I fixed the drums and bass or whatever, but I just kinda let it be, I was trying not to fuck around with it too much,” he says. Mac DeMarco's favourite tracks Killian Fox The laid-back Canadian on the power of weird music, dad rock and the joy of finding old Neil Young albums in the bargain bin
As he reflects on his image in the mirror, he hardly recognizes himself and notes that all the fun he’s had in the last few years is starting to take its toll on him.He also sees a connection between the wild life his father left and the way he’s been living the past few years. But I wouldn’t even consider myself a songwriter really, I’m just like a bedroom musician.”“Maybe making the record is the conversation, I have no idea. “But I don’t know if I’m really a good person to be giving advice.
I’ll probably get some weird phone calls from my family but, hey, maybe those phone calls weren’t gonna come unless I made it” – Mac DeMarcoStill, you don’t play back-to-back shows in London to 10,000 fans (as DeMarco will this month) without some serious songwriting smarts. “They’re written to myself, I think,” says DeMarco. It’s like, ‘Ahh, I don’t really like writing choruses any more,’ or, ‘Ehh, I don’t really like writing bridges any more.’ I just like to simplify things as much as possible.
The less tracks on a song I can get away with, the more stoked I am.
“A lot of this music is not necessarily like, ‘I love you, I hate you’ or anything like that. Watch Queue Queue. “Treat her better”, “act your age”, “calm down, sweetheart, grow up” – Mac’s back catalogue is littered with life-hacks like these, but what if all this advice is really just DeMarco trying to ward off his father’s mistakes by leaving himself these little reminders?
“But you go from that to being like, ‘Why the fuck should I?’ So it gets confusing again.
It’s more like, ‘Oh jackass, what are you doing?’”For the record’s sound, DeMarco wanted a pared-back feel to match the songs’ introspection. “Mmm, I’m so yawny! Something I could sit with. But I’m just enjoying myself, that’s it.”“There was definitely a period where I was like, ‘Damn, I should probably do this,’” says DeMarco.
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I’ll probably get some weird phone calls from my family but, hey, maybe those phone calls weren’t gonna come unless I made it. It’s 9am in LA, and DeMarco has just been summoned from his bed to contemplate, among other things, his strained relationship with his dad to a stranger on the phone. Like most things about Mac, one of life’s natural sharers, much of this is already on the record – he sang breezily of Mac Senior’s crystal meth addiction as far back as 2012, on ““It was looking grim,” says DeMarco, who crashed at an old flatmate’s place in his Edmonton hometown while his dad was laid up in the hospital (he’s since been discharged and is “up and about”). This video is unavailable.
“I wanted to make something that felt real to me. Watch Queue Queue My Old Man In “My Old Man”, Mac describes how he … And I think I can sit with this record.”In any case, says DeMarco, simplicity is a virtue he’s increasingly drawn to in his songwriting these days: “I keep taking building blocks out. The result is This Old Dog, easily DeMarco’s most sober and serious collection of songs to date, and a touching attempt to come to terms with a father-son relationship that never got off the ground (DeMarco’s dad was kicked out of the family home by his mum when Mac was just five).
5 out of 5 stars (341) 341 reviews. His mother, Agnes DeMarco, later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, after his father left when Mac was 4 and refused to pay child support.
“Maybe I’m getting better. But, who knows, maybe making the record is the conversation, I have no idea. AU$ 51.88. Mac DeMarco is the cover star for The Hedonism Issue of Huck Magazine.During his interview, the Canadian singer-songwriter discussed the controversy surrounding the … From shop eldlanevintage. “It’s more me trying to understand what a relationship like that is ‘Strange’, ‘weird’, ‘nuts’ – the words ripple through Mac’s conversation like refrains from a song whose particulars he can’t quite recall. Just excess, all of that stuff. He might fight shy of making grand claims for his art, but there’s a master-craftsman’s touch evident in songs like ““I don’t know, I just like making songs in my house,” he shrugs. It’s more me trying to understand what a relationship (with my father) is Does DeMarco worry about the traits he shares in common with his father? Not to say he’s becoming his father – who was an alcoholic that left his family when Mac was young – but seeing bits and pieces of his father in himselfMac has also noted that he gets the birthday blues, and this song alludes to his realisation of his own aging.During an interview on Loud And Quiet’s Midnight Chats, Mac Demarco spoke about the song and his father:He gives me a call once in a while: “Heard your song about me kid!” I was like, wait till you hear the rest, buddy. This song details how Mac realizes he sees his father – an addict and abuser – in his reflection more and more every day.In “My Old Man”, Mac describes how he sees himself aging both physically and mentally. The new stuff sees DeMarco don his acoustic guitar, but it’s a cosmetic change rather than a cosmic one. He attended McKernan School for junior high. “Well, yeah – smoking, drinking, partying, that kind of shit,” he says, trailing off into a yawn. These are all really good pop songs.
This song details how Mac realizes he sees his father – an addict and abuser – in his reflection more and more every day. These are all really good pop songs.