Mac DeMarco: 2 [CAPTURED TRACKS]

Why you'll love it

This is where the Mac DeMarco story really starts: jangly, woozy, endlessly charming guitar pop that a generation of bedroom musicians learned to play. "Ode to Viceroy" and "Freaking Out the Neighborhood" are fan favourites to this day.

This edition

• Single LP, 11 tracks
• Captured Tracks pressing (cat# CT-164)
• Recorded by Mac in his Montreal apartment

About the album

Before he became the gap-toothed patron saint of slacker rock, Mac DeMarco was an Edmonton kid who'd moved from Vancouver to Montreal, made a glammy mini-LP called Rock and Roll Night Club and convinced Captured Tracks to fund a proper album. He made it in his Mile End apartment over the summer of 2012, famously wearing nothing but his skivvies, and dropped the crooning for something simpler: chorus-drenched, slightly out-of-tune guitars, laid-back grooves and wry little songs about smoking, love and his hometown.

"Ode to Viceroy" (a love letter to his cigarettes of choice), "Freaking Out the Neighborhood," "Cooking Up Something Good" and "My Kind of Woman" all live here, and all of them still sound like a lazy summer afternoon. It's the template for everything that followed, and the one plenty of fans still love best.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Captured Tracks (cat# CT-164), first out in 2012.