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Salad Days
Artist
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Mac DeMarco
Label
Captured Tracks
Catalogue Number
CT193
Release Date
April 1, 2014

Limited edition 2xLP compiles both the original Salad Days and Salad Days Demos into a unique tri-fold ‘Chamber Of Reflection’ package complete with full color poster, 12-page booklet with DeMarco’s Salad Days tour dates, original rider, previously unpublished photos, and new liners written by Mac. Pressed on Holographic Evergreen vinyl.

Salad Days is the follow-up to 2012's lauded Mac DeMarco 2, which saw the Edmonton local propelled into the limelight. Written and recorded around a relentless tour schedule (which picked up all over again as soon as the LP was done), Salad Days gives the listener a very personal insight into what it's all about to be Mac amidst the craziness of a rising career in a very public format. The lead single, "Passing Out Pieces," set to huge overdriven organ chords, contains lines like "..never been reluctant to share, passing out pieces of me..." Clearly, this isn't the same record that breezily gave us "Dreamin," and "Ode to Viceroy" but the result of what comes from their success. "Chamber of Reflection," a track featuring icy synth stabs and soulful crooning, wouldn't be out of place on a fantasy Shuggie Otis and Prince collaboration. Standout tracks like these show Mac's widening sound, whether insights into future directions or even just welcome one-off forays into new territory. Still, this is musically, lyrically and melodically good old Mac DeMarco, through and through. The same crisp John Lennon/Phil Spector era homegrown lush production that could have walked out of Geoff Emerick's mixing board in 1972, but with that peculiar Mac touch that's completely of right now.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Salad Days 2:26 Buy

    Salad Days

  2. 2 Blue Boy 2:06 Buy

    Blue Boy

  3. 3 Brother 3:33 Buy

    Brother

  4. 4 Let Her Go 3:03 Buy

    Let Her Go

  5. 5 Goodbye Weekend 3:00 Buy

    Goodbye Weekend

  6. 6 Let My Baby Stay 4:08 Buy

    Let My Baby Stay

  7. 7 Passing Out Pieces 2:47 Buy

    Passing Out Pieces

  8. 8 Treat Her Better 3:49 Buy

    Treat Her Better

  9. 9 Chamber Of Reflection 3:52 Buy

    Chamber Of Reflection

  10. 10 Go Easy 3:25 Buy

    Go Easy

  11. 11 Jonny's Odyssey 2:38 Buy

    Jonny's Odyssey

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