Mac DeMarco 2 Vinyl LP (10th Anniversary Edition) 2022
10 year anniversary edition. Includes 8-page booklet.
Tracklist:
1. Cooking Up Something Good
2. Dreamin’
3. Freaking Out The Neighborhood
4. Annie
5. Ode To Viceroy
6. Robson Girl
7. The Stars Keep On Calling My Name 8. My Kind Of Woman
9. Boe Zaah
10. Sherrill
11. Still Together
12. Cooking Up Something Good
13. Stars Keep Calling My Name
14. Dreamin’ Slow
15. Lonely Shredder
16. Robson Girl
17. Annie
18. Harrison Ford Escort
19. Sherrill
20. My Kind of Woman (Instrumental)
21. Dreamin’ Fast
Mac DeMarco’s debut full length, 2, released in 2012, cleaned up the songwriter’s warped take on soft rock and brought it to a broader audience. Given DeMarco’s affinity for keeping things lo-fi — 2 was the first time he’d bothered to record demos — it’s revealing to hear these songs in their most embryonic form. The performances here are a little looser and the sound a little hazier than on the actual LP, lending an atmosphere of dreamy vulnerability, especially to ballads like “Annie” and the Lennon-esque “Sherrill.”
“It’s tough to say which DeMarco is preferable: the swooning clear-eyed baritone of the last two songs or the unsettling deep-voiced emoter of the first eight. Really, I’m a fan of both versions -- the goofy creep and the straightforward crooner.” – Pitchfork