- 2 is the debut full-length studio album by Canadian musician Mac DeMarco.It was recorded in June 2012, and released in October 2012 on the Captured Tracks label.
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Mac DeMarco, a 22-year-old singer songwriter from Montreal, is one of the more intriguing and, indeed, gifted musicians to emerge form Canada’s lo-fi indie rock scene. Having released a number of scrappy low-key cassette releases last year under the moniker Makeout Videotape, DeMarco reverted to making music under his own name and signed with Brooklyn’s esteemed Captured Tracks label. Following the Rock N Roll Night Club EP, released earlier this year, comes DeMarco’s curiously titled debut, 2. It offers a beguiling introduction into the singular world that DeMarco inhabits.
DeMarco is a musician who sounds far older than his years. 2’s cover features a broadly grinning, incredibly youthful DeMarco guitar in hand offering a peace sign. The image is very cheesy but perfectly fits into his aesthetic. The album straddles a thin divide between melodically sweet, naïve pop and a darker kind of melancholy. There is a hidden depth to much of 2 which belies the outwardly bright nature of many of the songs and the cheesily trad imagery.
The comparison most used when discussing DeMarco is Jonathan Richman. There are undoubted similarities – both artists are adept at making stripped back, slightly naïve and brilliantly melodic guitar rock. Songs like the jazzy guitar swing of Cooking Up Something Good and the gilding Freaking Out The Neighbourhood are nigh on perfect pieces of old-time sun kissed guitar pop. There is a something a little bit weirder though with DeMarco, a slight sense of subversion that hangs in the background, making much of 2 reminiscent of Ariel Pink‘s work at its most accessible. Whereas Pink’s work can often feel like a joke played on the audience, DeMarco’s songs are more heartfelt and lyrically direct. My Kind Of Woman deals with an age old pop theme of unrequited love and it sees a lambent guitar figure accompanying DeMarco’s yearning pleading to the girl of his dream whom he wishes to “Show me your world”. His resigned and deflated voice suggests he believes it may never happen.
DeMarco shows himself throughout the album to be a songwriter of real potential. Each song tells a distinct story. Opening track Cooking Up Something Good tells an engaging tale of family dysfunction: “Daddy’s on the sofa, pride of the neighbourhood.” The song is actually a rather sad tale about the apparent futility of suburban life with daddy actually making drugs in his basement. There is an inescapable sense of sadness in DeMarco’s delivery of the key line: “When life moves this slowly, just try and let it go.”
A desire to escape appears again on The Stars Keep Calling My Name, a lightly shimmering piece of swaying guitar pop, which sees DeMarco proclaiming: ‘This town’s really taking its toll.” The downbeat lyrics are a real contrast to the joyous slide guitar lines. That contrast between melancholic lyrics and playful jauntiness is present throughout. A number of songs are embellished with mellifluous guitar lines and off kilter guitar inflections. The best of these is the outro of Ode To Viceroy, which sees DeMarco’s guitar spiralling off on a dizzying melodic tangent. For ostensibly lo-fi, cheaply recorded music DeMarco is a seriously impressive musician and guitarist. But for all his musical talent thought there is a slightness to the songs that leads to a few of them becoming a bit samey in terms of structure of form. This is a minor concern though; these are simply just great songs.
2 closes with an understated romantic ballad that underlines the heartfelt emotion at the centre of the album. DeMarco is painfully honest, what could come across as saccharine is instead quietly affecting. De Marco addresses a female companion and declares: “In time she’ll see that her and me are meant to be together.”
There is something unique about Mac DeMarco in 2012. His sound is very traditional in both form and style but there is a very refreshing quality at the heart of 2. That slight touch of intrigue and eccentricity makes this a gem of a debut.
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| Released | October 16, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | June 2012 | |||
| Length | 31:27 | |||
| Label | Captured Tracks | |||
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2 is the debut full-length studio album by Canadian musician Mac DeMarco. It was recorded in June 2012, and released in October 2012 on the Captured Tracks label.
Background[edit]
DeMarco moved from Vancouver to Montreal in 2011. There, he recorded an EP under his own name, Rock and Roll Nightclub. Featuring slowed-down vocals and elements of glam rock, this recording garnered enough attention that his label, Captured Tracks, agreed to finance a full-length album.[1] DeMarco shifted his style from Rock and Roll Nightclub to 2, and his glam and crooning singing style were dropped for a more standard approach to guitar rock.[2] The album was composed and recorded in DeMarco's Montreal apartment, in the Mile End neighbourhood. DeMarco made the recording wearing only his 'skivvies', or underwear.[3] In a June 2012 interview, DeMarco announced that about 75% of the album had been completed.[4]
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Music[edit]
The album contains a single acoustic track, 'Still Together', which is a re-recording of 'Together', written by DeMarco on 2009 to Makeout Videotape EP 'Bossa Yeye', also features DeMarco using falsetto singing in the chorus.[5] The opener, 'Cooking Up Something Good', uses a song structure where a catchy verse transitions to a 'blindsiding' darker chorus.[6] 'Robson Girl' also juxtaposes a 'sweet' verse with a guitar-shredding chorus.[7]
Lyrically, DeMarco covers growing up in suburbia, failed love and family secrets, the last featuring heavily in 'Cooking Up Something Good'.[6] 'Ode to Viceroy' is a tribute to the singer's favourite brand of cigarettes.[5] DeMarco is apologizing to his mother in 'Freaking Out the Neighbourhood', and trying to convince a girl to leave town with him in 'The Stars Keep on Calling My Name'.[7]
Artwork[edit]
In September 2014, DeMarco stated in a 'What's in My Bag?' interview video at Amoeba Records in San Francisco, California that he had been inspired by the album art for Haruomi Hosono's Hosono House for the design of 2’s album cover.[8] In the same interview, DeMarco also points out his cover’s striking but coincidental similarity to Bruce Springsteen's The River.
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Reception[edit]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.4/10[9] |
| Metacritic | 81/100[10] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [11] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [12] |
| Consequence of Sound | [2] |
| The Guardian | [13] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10[14] |
| MusicOMH | [15] |
| NME | 8/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10[6] |
| Time Out | [16] |
| Uncut | 8/10[17] |
The album was compared by several reviewers to Real Estate's 2011 release, Days.[2]NME called DeMarco a 'skilled songwriter' and likened him to fictional character Ferris Bueller.[7] DeMarco's guitar work was praised by several reviewers.[5]The Guardian remarked that, although the initial tracks have promise, the album 'never quite delivers' and criticised its 'unvarying' tone.[13]Pitchfork gave an enthusiastic review, awarding the record its 'Best New Music' designation. Reviewer Sam Hockley-Smith commented positively on DeMarco's songwriting and lyrical depth.[6] The website placed the album at 43rd on their '50 Best Albums of the Year' retrospective.[18]
The album was named a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize on June 13, 2013.[19]
The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far, a list published by Pitchfork in August 2014.[20] In 2019, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 149 on their list of 'The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s'.[21]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Mac DeMarco.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Cooking Up Something Good' | 2:41 |
| 2. | 'Dreaming' | 2:27 |
| 3. | 'Freaking Out the Neighborhood' | 2:53 |
| 4. | 'Annie' | 3:10 |
| 5. | 'Ode to Viceroy' | 3:53 |
| 6. | 'Robson Girl' | 2:56 |
| 7. | 'The Stars Keep On Calling My Name' | 2:22 |
| 8. | 'My Kind of Woman' | 3:10 |
| 9. | 'Boe Zaah' | 1:41 |
| 10. | 'Sherrill' | 2:29 |
| 11. | 'Still Together' | 3:39 |
| Total length: | 31:27 | |
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Charts[edit]
| Chart (2012) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[22] | 26 |
References[edit]
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- ^Traynor, Cian. 'Interview: Mac DeMarco'. The Stool Pigeon. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ abcArroyo, Steven (October 30, 2012). 'Album Review: Mac DeMarco – 2'. Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^Leijon, Eric (December 12, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco keeps his music clean and his apartment dirty'. Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^Skinner, Tesse (June 11, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco'. Toro. Archived from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
- ^ abcWhelan, Alex. 'Mac DeMarco's new record shines with its Montreal roots'. Arizona Daily Wildcat. University of Arizona. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ abcdHockley-Smith, Sam (October 31, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco: 2'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ abcdPattison, Louis (October 15, 2012). 'Mac Demarco – '2''. NME. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^'Mac DeMarco - What's In My Bag?'. YouTube. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^'2 by Mac DeMarco reviews'. AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^'Reviews for 2 by Mac DeMarco'. Metacritic. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ^Thomas, Fred. '2 – Mac DeMarco'. AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
- ^Winkie, Luke (March 15, 2013). 'Mac DeMarco: 2 (Captured Tracks)'. The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
- ^ abHann, Michael (October 18, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco: 2 – review'. The Guardian. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^Lindsay, Cam (October 17, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco: 2'. Exclaim!. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
- ^Young, Martyn (October 22, 2012). 'Mac DeMarco – 2'. MusicOMH. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
- ^Frankel, Eddy. 'Mac DeMarco – '2' album review'. Time Out. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^'Mac DeMarco: 2'. Uncut (187): 69. December 2012.
- ^'The Top 50 Albums of 2012'. Pitchfork. December 20, 2012. p. 1. Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ^'Polaris Music Prize Unveils 2013 Long List'Archived 2013-06-18 at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, June 13, 2012.
- ^'The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014)'. Pitchfork. August 19, 2014. p. 2. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ^'The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s'. Pitchfork. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^'Mac DeMarco Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)'. Billboard. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
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