Maybe not."Ī little known fact is that Mac DeMarco wasn't born with that winning name. Mac doesn't exactly get his appeal though. He's everything you want in an artist and it's no wonder he's earned himself a rabid global fan base. He's a joker who makes audiences giggle and mosh to a tongue-in-cheek cover of Rammstein's "Du Hast." But at the drop of a hat, he can reduce those same wired fans to heartfelt tears with a ballad like "Let My Baby Stay." He's genial, relatable, dorky and cool. Thanks to his goofy, every-dude persona and his winsome lo-fi pop, the soon-to-be 24-year-old isn't exactly John Mayer. The mood for Salad Days is, 'Fuck man! I was just on tour for a year-and-a-half and I'm tired!'"Īnticipation for another album by his ever-growing legion of fans should make life even more chaotic for Mac. "It's way past the normal album cycle and it's starting to wear us down.
"Things really haven't slowed down for us at all," he says. Most artists try to take a breather between albums, but Mac never got off the road. His new album, Salad Days, is the follow-up to 2012's breakthrough 2, and it couldn't come at a better time. (At the top of his list would be his beloved sneaker of choice, Vans.)
Mac is poised to get more offers like this because right now, everyone wants a piece of him and that gap-toothed grin of his. But he seems to have come out on top: "They did give me some free shoes." The Converse photo shoot ran in magazines like The FADER as part of the brand's Rubber Tracks campaign, for which Mac also played some showcase gigs. He even has a machine in his living room, designed after the 1994, Alec Baldwin-starring failed blockbuster, The Shadow. He and his friends have become pinball obsessives. He chose the location in Brooklyn, where he now resides, at his local laundromat/pinball arcade Sunshine Laundry. If you could just lean away from the machine more and look in the camera…' And I'd be like, 'I've got a fucking ball going here, man! What the fuck's wrong with you!' But whatever."
I had to feed the pinballs and I'd have these credits going and they'd say, 'No, no. "One thing that pissed me off was that they didn't pay for my fucking pinball! What the fuck is that?" Mac says. Though it didn't exactly go the way he planned it. "I wouldn't call it modelling," says Mac DeMarco, as he reflects on that one time he was asked to try and "make love to the camera." Iconic sneaker brand Converse asked him to pose, but at least he was able to do it his way: by playing pinball.
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