What DeMarco’s music helps me do so well is face the inevitable shit-torrent of life with an added personal sweetness. I’ve listened to choice songs more than I can count, treating each as a laxative pill thickly coated in raw honey. Otherwise, melodies are driven mostly by use of acoustic, electric, and bass guitar, harmonized to electrically-synthesized tones and percussive rock rhythms into cheerful high tempo ditties and low tempo chilled-out airs. His most conventional pop-esque tracks, “On the Level” and “For the First Time,” use arpeggiated synth chords to drag out the melody into a pleasantly melancholic tone. But the synth is never far away in any tune, typical of DeMarco.
One track, “A Wolf Who Wears Sheep’s Clothes,” even adds the soulful pitches of the harmonica. It set the stage for DeMarco’s entry into the international spotlight, and this latest release experiments under the spotlight of global listeners, edging away from the electronic sounds of our musical era with a fresh use of acoustic guitar riffs and chords. Arpeggiated electric guitar melodies, a blend of synth chords, and a simple percussive rock rhythm characterized the last hit album, “Salad Days” (2014), as a signature cheesy bowl ‘o’ Mac DeMarco™. Released May of 2017, “This Old Dog ,” by Canadian artist McBriare Samuel Lanyon “Mac” DeMarco, exists as my anthem to the transition of summery love into wintry cruelty.
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