Vinyl Record
Mac DeMarco - Another One
Mac DeMarco - Another One on LP vinyl. A 2015 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2015
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2015 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Another One is Mac DeMarco at the size where his best songs often feel most persuasive: small room, small hours, love trouble reduced until it becomes strangely universal. Released in 2015 after Salad Days, the mini-LP does not try to expand his world through scale. It deepens it by narrowing the frame. The eight songs feel domestic in the fullest sense: home recording, private address, cheap-keyboard glow, guitar lines that wander as if they have just woken up, and melodies that make heartbreak sound almost casual until the hook catches. The Way You'd Love Her opens with a clean, easy sway, but the ease is deceptive. Much of Another One circles around uncertainty: wanting someone, losing someone, imagining someone with someone else, and trying to keep the voice light enough that the ache does not embarrass anyone. No Other Heart and I've Been Waiting for Her are built from simple phrases, but DeMarco's strength is the way he lets simple phrases turn into emotional objects. The title track is woozy and direct, a song about romantic replacement that sounds less bitter than dazed. A Heart Like Hers and Without Me slow the temperature further, making the record feel less like a collection of sketches and more like one afternoon of difficult thinking. My House by the Water closes the set with the famous invitation in its own offhand way, but even that gesture fits the album's strange intimacy. Another One is not a major statement in the usual promotional sense, and that is part of its charm. It feels like a note pushed under a door rather than a billboard. For all the slacker mythology around DeMarco, the songwriting here is disciplined: concise, melodically sticky, emotionally legible and careful not to overexplain itself. The record endures because it treats modesty as a form, not a lack of ambition.
Another One matters because it shows how much Mac DeMarco could do without inflating his sound or sanding away his oddness. Coming after the broader visibility of Salad Days, it chose intimacy over a victory lap, turning the mini-LP format into an advantage. The record helped fix DeMarco's mid-2010s identity as more than a lovable guitar eccentric: he was also a writer of compact, bruised pop songs that could carry real feeling through loose posture and plain speech. In a catalogue full of charm, this is one of the clearest examples of the charm holding melancholy rather than hiding it.
For collectors, Another One is valuable because it is both approachable and revealing. It is short enough to play like a mood piece, but strong enough to stand beside the larger albums rather than feeling like an appendix. It pairs naturally with 2 and Salad Days, completing the period when DeMarco's sound was at its most instantly recognizable: chorus-heavy guitar lines, sleepy keyboard tones, relaxed vocals and romantic unease. It is a strong shelf pick for listeners who prefer records that make their emotional point quietly and then leave the room before the feeling gets overworked.
Warm, woozy indie-pop with chorus-laden guitar, soft keyboard color, home-recorded intimacy and melodies that turn lovesick uncertainty into gentle repetition.
Recommended for: Mac DeMarco listeners who prefer his concise romantic songwriting; Collectors building a mid-2010s Captured Tracks and indie-pop shelf; Late-evening listeners who like melancholy delivered with a light touch.
What year was Another One released? Another One was released in 2015. Is Another One a full album? It is usually treated as a mini-LP, with eight songs and a compact running time. What is the mood of Another One? It is relaxed and intimate on the surface, but most of the songs circle romantic doubt, longing and emotional displacement.