But with his newest album Here Comes The Cowboy, he has simply recycled the 2017 record’s style and process, resulting in a project that sounds like a complete rewrite of This Old Dog. Despite the lack of evolution in Mac’s sound, there are definitely some chilled-out catchy tunes on this LP that stand out in the Mac Demarco discography. When slack-rocker Mac Demarco released This Old Dog in 2017, it seemed as though he was finally maturing in his sound and lyrical quality. Mac has released his most laid-back, repetitive album yet. Here Comes the Cowboy may retain some of the disarming simplicity and emotional universality that has become DeMarco’s trademark, but it is ultimately an album that fails to welcome the listener warmly into its world.Here Comes The Cowboy Mac’s Record Label That turns out – like its maker’s sense of humour – to be more amorphous: an air of self-indulgence characterised by an alienating kind-of comedy. Whether or not it was merely an unfortunate coincidence, that name-duplication isn’t this record’s real flaw. Here Comes the Cowboy initially attracted criticism when its similarities with Mitski’s 2018 album Be the Cowboy – including the fact that both feature a track called Nobody – were pointed out on social media. Yet others feel underpinned by a snicker – Baby Bye Bye, a slide-guitar-dominated ditty that descends into wry yee-hawing and wacky funk jam Choo Choo, which features a cartoonish gong sound, among them. Some tracks, such as K and Finally Alone, do still cleave gratifyingly to his previous formula (although none get anywhere near the brilliance of back catalogue highlights such as Salad Days and My Old Man). On Here Comes the Cowboy, however, those madcap antics begin to seep into his usually winsome songcraft. He matches gorgeous, heartfelt confections that seamlessly merge early indie, 90s alt-rock and classic 70s singer-songwriter fare – Orange Juice meets the Lemonheads meets Harry Nilsson – with a post-ironic slacker persona who covers Limp Bizkit and plays the Top Gun theme for 20 minutes during a gig. Mac DeMarco: Here Comes the Cowboy album artworkĭeMarco has always operated in a tonal hinterland.

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