Album reviews

SINGER-SONGWRITER

Mac DeMarco: Here Comes the Cowboy (Mac’s Record Label)

Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco has walked along a few shaky paths to achieve moderate mainstream appeal, yet from 2012’s debut studio album, 2, he has hit aural sweet spots with increasing regularity. His shtick, if you can call it that, is take-it-or-leave-it vocals that roll around the head looking for a place to stop – in other words, a multi-strand base that ...