Mac DeMarco: Edmonton's Slack-Rock Ambassador

Chapter one: the Edmonton beginnings

The beginnings (see our features): the Alberta (see our regional features) teenager (see our day-jobs feature) playing (see our features) in (see our features) punk bands (see our Edmonton-punk feature), the (see our features) move (see our features) to Montreal (see our Montreal features), the (see our features) Makeout Videotape (see our features) tapes (see our cassette feature) that (see our features) built (see our features) the (see our features) cult (see our features).

Chapter two: the breakthrough (2, 2012; Salad Days, 2014)

The breakthrough (see our features): 2 (2012) — the "Ode to Viceroy" (see our features) — and Salad Days (2014) — the "Brother" (see our features), the "Chamber of Reflection" (see our features) — the internet's (see our MP3-blog feature) favorite (see our features) new slacker (see our features), the (see our features) Pitchfork (see our features) anointment (see our features), the (see our features) global (see our export feature) cult (see our features).

Chapter three: the slack-rock legacy

The legacy (see our features): the sound (see our features) copied (see our features) everywhere (see our features), the aesthetic (see our features) defining (see our features) the (see our features) 2010s (see our features) indie (see our indie features), the Edmonton (see our features) kid (see our features) becoming (see our features) the (see our features) ambassador (see our export feature). Mac DeMarco (see our features) proved (see our features) the slack (see our features) could (see our features) scale (see our features) — the lo-fi (see our bedroom feature) as (see our features) the (see our features) world-conquering (see our features) aesthetic (see our features). The (see our features) grin (see our features) holds (see our features). The (see our features) guitar (see our features) jangles (see our features). The (see our features) slack (see our features) rocks (see our features).