Lav's Music Corner

Mac DeMarco is one of the defining indie artists of the 2010's. Across the decade he carved out a niche combining indie folk with psychedelic pop that then exploded into its own entire style of indie malaise. As his career goes on Mac's music has become increasingly patient with his previous album Be The Cowboy  unfolding slower than any before it. Review by Lav: Like many longtime fans of Mac DeMarco's music, I was pretty unimpressed by his 2019 album Be The Cowboy . After reviewing the record and listening to both the demo collections released following it, it was very clear to me that Mac wants to be making music with a gentler hand than he has in the past. While there are moments like the wonderful lead single Nobody  where that works, listening to it for an entire album kind of made me forget why I was ever such a fan of Mac's in the first place. This instrumental album does less to quell those fears and more to shift them. The long absence didn't initially wor...