1. Salad Days, the second album from Mac DeMarco is a breath of fresh air and harks back to the jangle pop of the late 80's and 90's such as The Cure, The Smiths, and The Lemonheads, in a word 'hazy'
2. The first single from Salad Days is 'Passing Out Pieces', a confessional of sorts, but we don't know what's niggling poor Mac inside, who sings, "What ma don't know, is starting to take it's toll.", and vocally sounds very much like early-Blur Damon Albarn
3. DeMarco has a reputation, for, eh, whipping out little Mac at his live shows, but insists he's grown up now...."....the only time I show c**k or anything like that is when a show is going so poorly you need to pull a fuckin’ rabbit out of the hat so everybody forgets how bad we were playing so people say ‘Oh my god that was so sweet’.”
4. DeMarco's debut album '2' was critically acclaimed with NME calling him a 'skilled songwriter' and the album making Pitchfork's 'Best 50 Albums of 2013', here's a great track from the album, 'Ode To Viceroy', an homage to his favourite brand of smokes
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5. Mac DeMarco is probably the most laid back musician on the scene at the moment, the Canadian lives in a hovel on the edge of Brooklyn in New York that makes the living quarters of Withnail & I's bums look like the palace in Versailles according to visiting music journalists, does he look like he gives a shit?
6. Let's delve a little deeper into DeMarco's 'quirky' persona, and this intelligent and articulate interview with L.A. band Foxygen at the 2013 Pitchfork Festival, personally, we're speechless….
7. And so back to the album itself, 'Blue Boy' is the second track on Salad Days and our only complaint is we want more!
8. Mac DeMarco's second album sees him going from joyful tomfoolery on his debut to a drift towards more serious lyrics and depth while retaining his madcap persona, this will be one of the albums of the year, an easy 4/5
