Mac DeMarco: Salad Days [CAPTURED TRACKS]

Why you'll love it

Salad Days debuted at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. "Passing Out Pieces", "Chamber of Reflection" and the title track made the Edmonton-raised slacker king a household name for a whole generation of bedroom guitarists.

This edition

• Single LP, 11 tracks
• Captured Tracks pressing of the 2014 album
• Recorded by Mac at home in Brooklyn, playing every instrument

About the album

Edmonton-raised Mac DeMarco went straight from spending a year and a half on the road in support of his 2012 debut, 2, into his newly established home studio in Brooklyn to make Salad Days so, unsurprisingly, this record doesn't sound radically different from its predecessor. Just ... better.

DeMarco's songwriting is more direct and less self-consciously quirky here, his playing (on every instrument heard on the album) necessarily sharper after months of touring, his production more refined whilst still retaining its shambolic DIY charm, and his comfort level with simply being Mac DeMarco (never really a problem to begin with) audibly apparent. DeMarco found his unlikely audience by being himself in the first place, so it would have been a bit foolish to immediately rewrite the book.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Captured Tracks, first out in 2014.