Mac Demarco Salad Days Demos

The recording of Mac DeMarco's 2014 album Salad Days came at the end of a massive tour after DeMarco returned from traveling the world to hole up in his Brooklyn apartment exhausted and depressed, coming down from taking on the world. This spent mental state no doubt informed the weathered mood of Salad Days, an album that saw a newly famous musician reflecting on getting older and feeling weary. While the album ended up exploring this mood and branching out into other territory emotionally and stylistically, the demo recordings that were made beforehand remain primarily in a state of muted melancholia, hazy production, and lethargic performances, putting an even finer point on the spread-thin sentiments. Salad Days favorites like "Blue Boy," "Let My Baby Stay," and the title track call on DeMarco's dreamiest interpretations of classic singer/songwriter influences like mid-period Kinks or solo John Lennon, and the demos for those songs take on an especially far-reaching quality. Uncert