Mac DeMarco: Another One | Album Review

Mac DeMarco seems like the kind of musician you could go for a cup of coffee with, and on his latest record he encourages you to do just that – by sharing his home address.

That simple act suggests a playful sincerity. DeMarco's previous album, 2014's Salad Days, explored the frailty of love, leavening it with trademark humour, and this continues on Another One, in which joy and despair waltz together like old friends.

The Way You'd Love Her sounds as wobbly as the mind can be, as is I've Been Waiting for Her, in which buoyant guitars mask a deep sadness.

This sensibility also marks out the glorious No Other Heart. Hazy melancholy infuses A Heart Like Hers (which brings to mind Air's Virgin Suicides score), with vocals that just melt away, while the title track pleasingly sounds like a lost John Lennon composition.

Superb.

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