“Some kids have been like, ‘Man, you’re starting from the ground up’,” DeMarco says of launching his own label. After issuing EPs and three low-key, psychedelic-tinged albums for the Brooklyn indie Captured Tracks, and accumulating an enviable fan base through relentless touring and endearing live shows, DeMarco is now calling his own shots via his new imprint, Mac’s Record Label. “Here Comes the Cowboy” is the gap-toothed troubadour’s first album to be distributed through a major label, the Universal Music Group-owned Caroline. ![]() “I don’t think I’ve cleaned it since we finished making the record,” he says. A bottle of Champagne sits beneath a peace-sign flag on the other side of the room.Ĭigarette in hand, DeMarco, born Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV, lounges on the studio couch and apologizes for the state of the studio. On a recent weekday afternoon, the converted two-car garage where the 29-year-old Canadian transplant recorded his new album, “Here Comes the Cowboy,” is littered with empties: A bottle of Campari rests on a coffee table next to spent red and white wine, a pack of Marlboros and a few cans of Tecate. ![]() The singer and songwriter Mac DeMarco’s Silver Lake studio smells like stale booze and nicotine.
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