Mac DeMarco: This Old Dog [CAPTURED TRACKS]

Why you'll love it

This Old Dog is Mac DeMarco at his most open-hearted, swapping the wobbly guitars for vintage drum machines and acoustic strumming. "My Old Man," "For the First Time" and "On the Level" are among the best songs he's ever written.

This edition

• Single LP, 13 tracks
• Captured Tracks pressing

About the album

"Serious themes, stoned demeanour" read the headline topping the Guardian review of Edmonton-raised singer/songwriter Mac DeMarco's third album, This Old Dog, when it arrived in May of 2017.

A more succinct and accurate summation of everything DeMarco gets up to here (indeed, gets up to in general) there could not be. While his image and the easygoing indie-pop he makes paint him as the quintessential "slacker," he's remarkably honest and vulnerable on This Old Dog, a record largely preoccupied with his complicated relationship with his father. Behind the boozy onstage antics and that goofy exterior, believe it or not, there's a human being with a heavy heart working through his stuff just like the rest of us.

"Serious themes, stoned demeanour."
The Guardian

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Tracklist

Listen

On Captured Tracks (cat# CT-260), first out in 2017.