"No Other Heart" premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show Musical Hot Water Bottle on July 20. DeMarco shared "I've Been Waiting for Her" on July 14.
Attendees who offered donations to a food bank received BBQ food. On July 8, DeMarco held a listening party and BBQ for fans in Brooklyn, New York. He also encouraged fans to upload their own cover versions of the song and announced he would award 69 cents to the fan with the best submission. A week later, DeMarco released a self-directed music video for the mini-LP's title track. Without permission, BBC Radio played the previously unheard song "Just to Put Me Down" from the mini-LP on June 9. On May 11, DeMarco shared "The Way You'd Love Her", and announced 24 further tour dates, extending the festival and concert tour to November. Dinner supported him on his first three dates, in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. DeMarco is set to perform at several North American and European festivals and will also be headlining concerts on both continents. Along with the extended play, 43 tour dates, starting in April and ending in September, were announced. The release of the mini-LP was announced on April 22, 2015. The songs were written within a week and recorded within the following week and a half. So I think that it's not so important what they mean to me, as opposed to being there for other people to have and to enjoy, hopefully and maybe to reflect on, or whatever."Īnother One was recorded by DeMarco in his home in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York between tour dates promoting his previous studio album Salad Days (2014). This beguiling little album is another feather in DeMarco's baseball cap, and will live on in his growing catalog, but you might want to head over to Queens for that cup of coffee before it's too late."I think people should be able to come along and have it mean something to them It's talking about all different kinds of facets of being in love, being out of love, wanting love, not wanting love. It feels ephemeral and so, perhaps, is DeMarco's tenure in the watery little house where this music was made. On the final track, he pairs a lonesome, dark-toned synth against a backdrop of waves lapping at his rocky shoreline in what feels a bit like an instrumental love song to a place and time. The half-smirking irony that many critics have accused him of feels further distanced here as he continues to explore his capabilities as a songwriter and player. Befitting the record's amorous themes, DeMarco's overall tone here is sweeter and more tender than before, even on more lighthearted fare like the frisky faux yacht rocker "Just to Put Me Down," where he flexes a bit of Jerry Garcia-inspired guitar muscle. As a collection Another One hangs together quite well with the wobbly, synth-led title cut and the warm pop groove of the marvelous "No Other Heart" making for two of the album's biggest standouts. Musically, it's no great departure from the world he created on Salad Days, but there's a feeling of listening in on an artist who is just coming into the peak of his powers, and the creative spirit behind these subtly charming songs is immediately apparent. The unique, heavily-chorused guitar tone and the laid-back grooves rooted in '70s soft rock support gently catchy melodies with intelligent lyrics that nimbly tread the line between heartfelt and wry. A loosely themed concept album about love, with each song exploring a different emotion (longing, jealousy, frustration, joy), Another One bears the distinctive hallmarks that have, so far, come to signify a DeMarco release. Wasting little time on his follow-up, DeMarco quickly wrote and assembled this eight-song effort at his home on the southern shores of New York's Jamaica Bay in Queens. Beginning with 2012's Rock & Roll Nightclub, each release has been an improvement on its predecessor, with 2014's Salad Days landing atop many critic's year-end lists. As admired for his oddball antics (homemade videos wearing Michael Jackson and Homer Simpson masks, holding a contest for fans whose prize is $0.69 from his bank account, that invitation for coffee) as for his laid-back songcraft, DeMarco has become an unexpected indie hero with his own highly recognizable sound. In a not-so-secret message at the end of his 2015 mini-album Another One, Mac DeMarco offers up his home address in Far Rockaway, New York, inviting listeners to "Stop on by, I'll make you a cup of coffee." Four albums into his relatively young career, the transplanted Canadian has already earned a playfully eccentric reputation that mirrors his unconventional musical style.
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