Mac DeMarco Vinyl Records – Salad Days, 2 & Essential Albums on Vinyl

Mac DeMarco is the defining voice of 2010s indie slacker-rock. Born in Duncan, British Columbia in 1990, he moved to Montreal in his early twenties and recorded his first two full albums — 2 (2012) and Salad Days (2014) — almost entirely by himself on basic equipment in small apartments. The sound is distinctive from the first bar: detuned, chorus-heavy guitar, loose rhythm, gently off-key vocals, and a songwriting sensibility that combines actual tenderness with amateur-hour humour.

His catalogue has since moved between the compact indie-pop of the early albums, the ambient instrumental detours of Some Other Ways (2018), the ambitious full-length This Old Dog (2017) and Here Comes the Cowboy (2019), and the massive demo release Five Easy Hot Dogs (2023). DeMarco on vinyl is genuinely rewarding — the warmth of the chorus-treated guitars and the home-recorded intimacy really benefit from analogue playback. The Captured Tracks originals and the Mac's Record Label recent releases are consistently well-pressed.

Best Mac DeMarco Albums on Vinyl

Salad Days (2014)
His breakthrough. Salad Days, Blue Boy, Brother, Let Her Go, Chamber of Reflection — the record that turned him from a cult favourite into a generational indie star. Gentle, funny, melancholic. Essential.

2 (2012)
The debut full-length on Captured Tracks. Cooking Up Something Good, Freaking Out the Neighborhood, Ode to Viceroy, My Kind of Woman — loose, sparse and disarmingly good. The record that established the sound.

This Old Dog (2017)
The third album. My Old Man, This Old Dog, On the Level, One More Love Song — more country-and-piano influenced, and his most emotionally direct record. The sound of someone growing up.

Here Comes the Cowboy (2019)
The divisive fourth album. Nobody, All of Our Yesterdays, Choo Choo — a quieter, more abstract record than what came before. Polarised fans at release; increasingly admired.

Another One (2015)
The mini-album released between Salad Days and This Old Dog. The Way You'd Love Her, Without Me, Another One — eight tracks of pure melodic DeMarco. A near-perfect short LP.

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