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Demos Volume 1 [CD]

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Before the polished albums came the bedroom tapes, and Mac DeMarco's Demos Volume 1 gathers them on CD, offering a loose, intimate look at how his early songs took shape.

The collection pulls together home recordings made while DeMarco was writing 2 and Salad Days, the two Captured Tracks albums that turned a goofy Canadian songwriter into one of indie rock's most recognisable voices. Hearing them in sketch form is a reminder that the charm was there from the very first take.

These versions are rough at the edges in all the right ways. Cooking Up Something Good already has its lazy, sun-warped swagger, the guitar bending in and out of tune like a record left on a warm dashboard. Salad Days sounds wistful and a little world-weary even in embryo, while Let My Baby Stay strips down to a hushed, tender lullaby that loses none of its sweetness without the studio finish.

What comes through most is the craft hiding under the slacker image. The chorus-drenched guitar lines, the wobbly basslines and the half-smiling vocals were never accidents; they were the plan all along.

For fans who know the finished albums by heart, this is the fun part: the same songs caught mid-thought, with the tape still rolling and nothing yet tidied away.

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