BLAST FROM THE PAST: Mac DeMarco 'Salad Days' Album Review 2014

Here's one that slipped the net- an album review for the Exeter Daily published in 2014. Seeing as I'm using this space as an online portfolio I thought I may as well slide this one in. It's tremendously succinct for an album review, but I imagine that I spent a great deal of time tirelessly fretting over each individual word. Here's to writing more and getting ...slowly... better.

Mac DeMarco 'Salad Days' Album Review

An effortlessly lazy third album from tousled Canadian blue-waver DeMarco, Salad Days sees a daydreaming melange of lulling guitars glazed with Sunday morning vocals delivered through a hungover smile.

Opening track ‘Salad Days’ is an upbeat lament similarly as ‘Let Her Go’ carries a sunshine feel despite lyrical sadness.

Lo-Fi and nonchalant, the record is brushed with psychedelic tones with ‘Brother’ and stand out track ‘Chamber of Reflection’ exercising this with much of a continuation of the sounds heard on 2012’s ‘2’.

Penultimate ‘Go Easy’ is synonymous with the record as a laid back, easy breezy summertime gem. 7/10

https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/entertainment-reviews/mac-demarco-salad-days-album-review