I’m just having fun, I like when you guys are having fun."ĭo you have any broader influences like art or film or books that you reference when you’re writing? He seems very happy and the way he performs is like, "Don’t worry everybody, just get into it. I love Jonathan Richman – I love a lot of his music and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. Which band or artist most inspires you in their live shows? You're known for being a very lively performer. I mean I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I’d become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it I was like, "Woah, these are great bands! I can do it too." And then when you start doing it, and people like your stuff, that’s what really gets you hooked. I first started going to shows when I was about 16 – seeing local bands. When did you first know that music was what you wanted to do? Here – prior to a tangibly energetic show at The Garage in Islington last week, which began with DeMarco’s original material and spiraled into off-kilter covers of Eric Clapton and The Beatles, and finally Metallica’s Enter Sandman, topped off by a flying stage dive – AnOther spoke to the free-spirited Canadian about his dream collaborations and writing love songs about Marilyn Monroe. "I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them" I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.”
Yet all remain open to interpretation: "A lot of the songs on 2 are pretty personal," he explains, “but even if I’m writing about something like that I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. Some of the songs are distinctly whimsical – the catchy opening track, Cooking Up Something Good, telling the tale of a son whose father manufactures drugs in the family basement – while others, like love song My Kinda Woman, are more upfront. It is a crooning, grooving, guitar-led record an infectious, idiosyncratic form of pop, which DeMarco terms “jizz-jazz”. Honesty, he stresses, was the key theme behind his full-length album 2, released last October – this time with a cover that shows its protagonist in a plaid shirt, making a peace sign and smoking. If I want to make a career out of this, maybe I should be a little bit more honest to myself.'” “A lot of guys would come to the shows and go, Mac where are the stilettos tonight? Where’s the lipstick, honey? And I was fine with that but at the same time I thought, 'Wait a minute. “Everybody got a very strange idea of me,” he muses. The EP, described by Pitchfork as a combination of “yacht rock, AM radio gold, and Bowie-like glam,” was a clear indication of DeMarco’s musical flair, but critics and DeMarco alike felt it lacked sincerity. Listen.Įditorial & Friends 001 is available for pre-order here.Last April, Mac DeMarco released his first record – the 10-track EP Rock And Roll Night Club, whose title track features on our Another Man playlist – complete with an arresting set of cover art images depicting the then 21-year-old in Halloween regalia and red lipstick. He channels all that sweetness into this lo-fi rendition, even adding his own tangled solo toward the end - Clapton would definitely approve. For now, though, listen to DeMarco’s take on Eric Clapton’s contribution to the Phenomenal soundtrack, the three-time Grammy-winner “Change The World.” This song features one of the best lines about the sun on any song ever: “I will be the sunlight in your universe.” That’s quite the endeavor, and though Clapton didn’t write the song, it’s up there with some of the most heartfelt lines on “Tears In Heaven.” DeMarco does the thing justice, especially since the loved-up vibes are on the same wavelength as the moony ballads on his own new record. The release also features songs from artists like Blood Orange, Blue Hawaii, Weyes Blood, White Poppy and plenty of others, so it’s well worth picking up here. DeMarco contributed a cover song to The Editorial Magazine’s first-ever cassette tape release. Mac DeMarco’s brand new mini-album Another One is just around the corner, but that hasn’t stopped the ever-prolific Canadian from recording other new music.