For all of Mac's goofy and downright crazy tendencies, at the center lies a fine songwriter with a knack for writing reflective tunes, and This Old Dog stands as his most consistent and musically deep album. While taking the laid-back vibes of Salad Days forward, he strips down to the acoustic guitar for much of this album with great success, while also including some of the keyboard hooks ("For the First Time", "One More Love Song") that 2015's Another One helped propel him to stardom in the indie rock community.
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The subtle transition of mood in This Old Dog is a cathartic feeling that we all needed from the usually charismatic, DeMarco.With 2017's This Old Dog, Mac Demarco demonstrates what his long-time fans have known for awhile now - his knack for writing a heartfelt tune With 2017's This Old Dog, Mac Demarco demonstrates what his long-time fans have known for awhile now - his knack for writing a heartfelt tune that James Taylor or John Lennon would be proud of. It is beautiful, depressing and strangely hopeful. In all, This Old Dog is a logical continuation of DeMarco s musical explorations, but the maturation of his songwriting is what gives it gravitas. In this This Old Dog, he strips down his iconic exuberant attitude, especially with this last track - possibly the most vulnerable point of his musical career. 'For the First Time' and 'On the Level,' a pair of woozy keyboard-heavy ballads, feel like an outgrowth of Another One s love song experiment and likely have their roots in those same sessions. Thus, all of his emotional walls have crumbled. : Mac DeMarco, : This Old Dog, : 02:30, : 3.46, : 192 kbit/sec, : mp3. He drops the warmth provided by his guitar playing. However, this track cuts deeper than any other on the album - juxtaposing the physical parallels expressed in “My Old Man.” The only instrument at this point is an icy synth. He struggles to say goodbye, but these struggles feel so raw and pure. With “Watching Him Fade Away,” we once again hear Mac’s pains of trying to connect to his father.
The track depicts him attempting to reconcile with the inevitable death of his sickly father.
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This wistfulness descends into “Moonlight On The River,” where Mac’s remorse is on full display. This Old Dog is unquestionably Demarco’s finest work, easily taking the throne as this month’s best album released. When the album gets to “Sister,” the warm start to the album declines and becomes more melancholic and real - a side we have yet to really experience from him. This Old Dog’s writing still emits some positivity like his prior releases, but there is a slight touch of dissonance given the lyrical content. What it does offer, however, is the most self-reflective version of DeMarco to date. The introspective DeMarco opens up the album by observing the physical similarities between him and his father, but the comparisons essentially stop there. As each song progresses from the opening track of “My Old Man,” his lyrics manifest into something utterly genuine, and more introspective and honest than anything he has ever produced.
Mac’s latest release is intimate and gorgeous from start to finish. But as This Old Dog, presses on, he unravels this sweater thread by thread, so listeners can gradually experience his cold reality - a reality accented by a struggling relationship with his sick father. With his latest project, he gifts viewers with a warm sweater making everything about life’s grueling nature worthwhile. He just about got away with it, still running on the fumes of the ever so slightly sharpened and brilliant.
2015’s 8-track mini album, ‘Another One’, felt like little more than a stopgap something to tide over a hard touring musician sick of his set not bad typical you know, ‘Another One’. Throughout his career, the charismatic Mac DeMarcohas offered his listeners much more than a discography full of timeless lo-fi slacker rock - his music curates reassurance and peace of mind. The title of Mac DeMarco’s last release was telling of the content within.
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