Only, DeMarco’s lyrics still offered glimpses of deeper anxieties that were displayed in ways that felt more opaque than revelatory. “Passing Out Pieces” is still DeMarco’s most cinematic song – it’s introduced by a blaring synth and booming bass, shocking in its in-your-face confidence. The glancing references to personal troubles that appeared on songs like “Freaking Out the Neighborhood” were brought to the forefront of DeMarco’s songwriting. But while 2 was an honest record, it was lighthearted, and any discussion of the darker side of DeMarco’s story was left implied.īut with his sophomore release, Salad Days, DeMarco dipped his toes a bit deeper into the muck.
Part of the appeal of 2 was that it felt so intimate – the songs shimmered with a warmth, casualness, and humor that played like you were sprawled on a beaten couch in a close friend’s garage, listening to the guys jam and goof off. “Daddy’s in the basement, cooking up something fine / While Rick’s out on the pavement, flipping it for dimes / If there’s anything redeeming, I haven’t seen it yet / And I’m still up at midnight, chewing nicorette.” A thin blanket of melancholy rests just over some of his best work, like a layer black ice on a sidewalk that’s invisible and ready to bust your ass if you stumble into it unprepared.Īs early as “Cookin’ Up Somethin’ Good” on his breakthrough album 2, DeMarco was singing about a dysfunctional home life, but with a rubbery cheeriness as if he was in “The Brady Bunch”. He is, by his own admission, a regular guy who likes to sing about regular stuff.Įxcept, beyond the surface-level shenanigans that have come to define him to many, there have always been hints that there is more to the man than his stage presence. He’s charming, in a goofy, off-kilter, gap-toothed kind of way. His live sets are littered with inside jokes, he’s liable to play a jangly AC/DC cover at any moment, and he looks like he just climbed out of sleeping bag in a cave. You could argue that Mac DeMarco has made a career for himself through the intimacy he’s developed with his fans more than any other factor.
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