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That’s the fun of it.” What’s his top relationship advice?
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”). 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).
It’s not that it’s not my place to talk about American politics, but it’s a little complicated.” How worried is he about nuclear war? Soon after his birth, the family moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where Mac spent the rest of his adolescence. It’s really fucked up and scary, and it’s getting scarier.” He does have Twitter and Instagram accounts but rarely touches them; one of his most recent tweets, from last October, simply reads “#jarjarbinks”.Social media has also meant that footage of his wilder live shows – nudity, drinking, a notorious incident involving a drumstick – live on online. “It’s always weird when someone takes their pants down and has a drawing of me tattooed on their butt. “The whole thing with the internet,” he says with a groan, “it’s the wild west. Be respectful. “They’re written to myself, I think,” says DeMarco. Just excess, all of that stuff. 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. When I remark that the album has more darkness and meditations on mortality, he yawns and says, “Maybe, I dunno. “Mmm, I’m so yawny! What makes him angry? “Maybe I’m getting better. Did exploring these issues on the album change the way he views his father? “Nah, I’m good,” he says. People read into things too much – it’s all horseshit and I like to treat it that way and have fun with it.”He’s unlikely to repeat the experiment in his new place. “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. 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. “Well, yeah – smoking, drinking, partying, that kind of shit,” he says, trailing off into a yawn. “What I try to focus on is try and play as well as I can and make sure everybody’s happy.”It has just been announced that later this year DeMarco will be Until then, does he have any pearls of wisdom to impart? A casual listen to the album doesn’t immediately reveal the ruminations within: the music sounds upbeat and melodic, there are odes to love (inspired by his long-term girlfriend), guitars twang serenely. Mac DeMarco crowdsurfs during his gig at Glastonbury, 2016. Hopefully nuclear war doesn’t happen, that would really blow ass.”The only stage at which he gets close to losing his cool is at the gig at Nambucca. “A lot of this music is not necessarily like, ‘I love you, I hate you’ or anything like that. “It’s bizarre, but I understand how fucked up the youth is now, where your online life is equal to your self-worth. “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. His preferred way of starting an answer is “I dunno”.Two sides coexist in the DeMarco universe: one laid-back and sunny, one more introspective. Long-term relationships are like a fucking mountainscape, you know? 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. “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? “Just tell everybody to brush their teeth twice a day – keep it fresh.”At once jaunty and dark, the music of the Canadian singer-songwriter has won him a growing fanbase. But at the same time anyone can be like, ‘Damn, I One of DeMarco’s signatures as a songwriter is what we might call his ‘advice songs’. They met aged 14, got together five years later, and are still together seven years on (“almost eight”, she chirps in the background). “A lot of people are really put out, sad, disappointed… but I dunno. “I’d just never really thought about it, and there was this moment there where it was like, ‘Well, this might be my last chance to think about it.’ Y’know, a lot of these songs I didn’t think I was gonna put on the record, I was just writing songs in New York and then funnily enough, I went on ahead and did it.”“A lot of this music is not necessarily like, ‘I love you, I hate you’ or anything like that,” says DeMarco, blinking through the sleepy-dust. The playlist The playlist: the best indie of 2015 – Mac Demarco, This Is the Kit and more. The less tracks on a song I can get away with, the more stoked I am. But I don’t know, I really don’t. “Um, no. His style of music has been described as "blue wave" and "slacker rock", or, by DeMarco himself, "jizz jazz". For the rest of the year he’s on a massive tour of the US and Europe – including two sold-out nights at south London’s 5,000-capacity Brixton Academy and headlining End of the Road – but tonight he’s performing solo, no backing band, “just Mac”.Mac DeMarco crowdsurfs during his gig at Glastonbury, 2016.
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