This is best captured midway through the album on “Sister”, perhaps the most heartfelt minute and nineteen seconds DeMarco has ever put to tape. Vibrant synth melodies, and cleverly accented clave patterns no doubt help make these songs work musically, but it’s the sentiments espoused by DeMarco that make them resonate. What makes songs like album openers “My Old Man” and “This Old Dog” so engaging is that they not only feel fresh within DeMarco’s overall body of work, but come across as intimate ruminations on the artist’s life and relationships. Songs like “Baby You’re Out” and “Moonlight on the River” sound like poorer versions of tracks found earlier on the record, while “One More Love Song” is about as original as its title suggests.
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This Old Dog also boasts the most acoustic guitar and synthesizer of any Mac DeMarco release, a mix that works surprisingly well on the record’s titular track, and serves as a welcome change from the musician’s trademark pedal-heavy sound.Īlthough these changes to DeMarco’s song writing formula make for generally successful new material, This Old Dog does suffer from issues of monotony. On his third full-length album, DeMarco spends equal time with maturity and mischievousness, questioning a budding likeness to his father in the opening song “My Old Man”, while saving room to offer cheeky relationship advice on “One Another”. Such juxtapositions seem to be what This Old Dog was made to tackle, dealing with the dichotomies of aging lyrically, and different instrumental decisions sonically. His gap tooth grin and ever-affable personality speak to a youthful persona, while the floppy dad hats and cheap cigarettes that have become staples of his image are more in line with “middle-aged tradesman” than “indie rock icon”. It’s easy to envision Mac DeMarco as ageless.
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