Hi there and thanks for joining us. I'm Simon here with Brian and with us for episode 296 of the Sode-Djurker podcast is a super talented Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who first came to prominence in the early 20 teens.

Famed for his lo-fi DIY approach and lovable slacker persona, he's been dubbed the laid-back

Prince of indie rock by the New York Times and collaborated with the legs of Thundercat, Mac Miller,

Tim Hidecker, Tyler the creator, Kenny Beats and Ryan Parris.

As this episode reaches you, he's just dropped a brand new album, Guitar, recorded completely

solo at his Los Angeles home studio in late 2024.

It's our great pleasure to welcome the brilliant Mac DeMarco to the show.

Mac was born in Duncan, British Columbia in 1990 and raised by his mother Agnes in Edmonton, Alberta.

He caught the music bug in his mid-teens, initially taking guitar lessons from his grandmother,

then playing in various high school bands with names like The Meek Cleavers and The Sound of Love,

as well as learning how to record on a Fostex 8 track given to him by a friend.

After high school, he relocated to Vancouver, where he began putting out music under the name

Make Out videotape, much of it recorded on the aforementioned Fostex, including a self-produced

album called Heatwave. Further material uploaded to Bancamp brought him to the attention of indie label

captured tracks, who signed him in early 2012. By this time based in Montreal, he dropped the

EP Rock and Roll Nightclub the same year, swiftly followed by his first proper solo album, too. The record was

widely praised by critics and Mac's devoted fan base continued to grow.

2014's Salad Days, written and recorded in a month in Mac's Bedstuy, Brooklyn Apartment,

boasted the track chamber of reflection, now approaching a billion Spotify streams, while

2017's This Old Dog marked his move to the West Coast

and lyrically examined his strained relationship with his father.

2019's Here Comes the Cowboy was our guest's first LP to be released via his own Mac's record label,

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