Sold Date: November 27, 2014
Start Date: October 14, 2014
Final Price: $21.95 (USD)
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Mac Demarco has certainly captured my attention both with his nude antics and chilled blue wave sound. Part melancholy and mundane and part celebratory and engaged, both of Demarco’s full lenghts (2 and Salad Days) reel with squirrelly lead guitars and hazy backing instruments. Mac’s relaxed and sugary vocals weave around catchy melodies with an ease that is hard to come by (let alone reproduce track after track). And 2 Demos is no different. The demos are a little woollier than 2 proper but not by much. Some songs unwind slower and some constantly shift levels–sounding like a basement take rather than a polished recording. That said, these quirks in 2 Demos are endearing and fit well within the slacker anthems Demarco jots out. “Dreamin” is one of these tracks whose variances give it an edge to the official material. Slowed down, the track definitively lands in a land of melancholy–echoing the song’s lyrical longing. In addition to these changed tracks, the album has a lot of instrumental tracks. The instrumental version of tracks like “My Kind of Woman” and “Lonely Shredder” bring Demarco’s fun and carefree riffs to the foreground. While his vocal melodies are wonderful and what drew me on first listen to Mac Demarco’s songs, they sometimes over power his instrumentation. “My Kind of Woman” (the instrumental version) highlights the tracks smooth and easy riffing. Like most “additional material” releases, this album probably won’t win over any new fans. It will, however, offer those who are already into Mac Demarco a few more tracks and some different versions of previous released songs. 2 Demos does well to keep Demarco in his slow, pop-rock groove–a groove that’s easily let’s us follow and diffuse in its sonic wake. Just as his previous material makes you (well, me at least) want to drop out and kick back, this demo album spins its slacker-rock, combining old moves and subtle nuances, as well as acts as a testament to why Mac Demarco is at the top of this genre.
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