Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

"As I'm getting older, chip up on my shoulder..." That's the opening line from Mac DeMarco's second full-length album 'Salad Days', the follow-up to 2012's award-winning album 'Mac DeMarco 2'. this opening phrase from the title track sets the tone for the mature singer, songwriter and producer's LP with a free-sounding guitar. Someone who, at the age of 23, is strangely aware of the positives and negatives of his current situation. Written and recorded around a relentless touring schedule (which resumed once the LP was finished), 'Salad Days' gives the listener a very personal look at what it's like to be Mac in the midst of the madness of a rising career in a very public format. Lead single "Passing Out Pieces", set to huge overdriven organ chords, features lines like "...never been reluctant to share, passing out pieces of me...".

It's clear that Salad Days isn't the same record that blithely gave us "Dreamin'" and "Ode to Viceroy," but the result of what comes out of their success.