These tracks sound like they come easy to DeMarco. ![]() The length of this record is a little over 20 minutes, but what a 20 minutes of music they are. There are question marks as to whether the eight tracks that make up Another One constitute a full LP or, rather, are part of an extended EP. ‘The Way You Love Her’ seems tailor made to accompany the summer nights the jangly guitar line looping several times over, before breaking out into a solo which sounds like it has come straight from the 1980’s New Wave scene. ![]() ‘My House By The Water’ is mostly instrumental, the sound of waves forming and gently crashing, accompanied by the low register of a keyboard, and ends with DeMarco giving out his home address with the promise of a cup of coffee if fans wanted to ‘drop on by’. ‘Without Me’ is DeMarco’s kiss-off to a relationship ‘Will she find love again tomorrow/I don’t know/I hope so/That’s fine by me/as long as she is happy’. If DeMarco was to be compared to another musical artist, the closest comparison would be Beck circa Sea Change both records share a similar orchestration, both deal with the feelings of love requited and love lost. Arriving just 12 months after 2014’s Salad Days, Another One sees DeMarco exploring love and romance, setting his lyrics to a wonderfully chilled out musical backdrop. Another year, another Mac DeMarco record.
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