Engineering the Sound: Mac DeMarco’s ‘Salad Days’

Source: Engineering the Sound: Mac DeMarco’s ‘Salad Days’

After the release of his 2012 breakout album 2, Mac DeMarco’s fanbase began spreading around the globe in the lead up to Salad Days. In a 2014 interview with Evan Minsker of Pitchfork, Mac described feeling “weathered and beat down and grown up all of a sudden” after almost two years of touring and press.

As a result, his second full-length album Salad Days not only progressed technically but also developed in its maturity and themes. “It’s weird because I did it all in about a month. Maybe it was the mood I was in, I didn’t really feel like writing a ‘rock’ song,” Mac explained in a 2014 interview with Under the Radar.

In saying this, it wasn’t like DeMarco suddenly had some epiphany about modern social issues after watching a late night Oxfam commercial. Salad Days is still smeared with his signature cheek and charm, but when listening to his previous albums comparatively, you can hear his lo-fi indie-rock speaking on a deeper level.

It’s time to grow up and eat our greens, so here are 5 steps that went into making Salad Days, the perfect side dish to everyone’s favourite cheesy Mac.

Read the full article at Happy Mag.