Some Other Ones＜限定盤/Canary Yellow Vinyl＞

『Salad Days』の大ヒットから約1年後の2015年にMac DeMarcoは"BBQサウンドトラック"と位置付けたインストゥルメンタル・レコーディング集『Some Other Ones』をBandcamp限定で無料デジタル・ダウンロード・リリースした。すぐにカルト的な人気を獲得し、今では彼のファンの間で、彼の愛すべきカタログの重要な1枚となっている。そして遂にLPとして登場しました。限定Canary Yellow Vinyl。

In 2023, Mac DeMarco let the music do the talking for the most part, starting the year with the release of the fully instrumental travelogue Five Easy Hot Dogs and then dumping out the archives with literal hours of unreleased demos and semi-finished sketches on One Wayne G, a collection that was also largely instrumental. DeMarcos instrumental voice has long been a facet of his appeal, though. In 2015, shortly after releasing the mini-album Another One, he shared the completely instrumental collection Some Other Ones as a download-exclusive release. Written, recorded, and otherwise rendered over the course of a five-day jag, Some Other Ones was intended to be the soundtrack to a summer Bar-B-Q, light and happy background music that was in keeping with DeMarcos wobbly pop sensibilities. With the wide-scale release of Some Other Ones eight years later, he brings this collection of carefree sounds into contrast with his instrumental output that followed. Arriving not long after 2014s Salad Days, Some Other Ones is DeMarco at the summit of his breakthrough phase. Though wordless, the songs have the same drippy, happily unstable production as other of his releases at the time. The dazzled synths and yacht rock melodies of "Onion Man" or the off-center dreaminess of "Don Juan" are from a time when DeMarcos lackadaisical charm was on full blast, and the only thing keeping bumbling rockers like "Fish Terry" from sounding like Salad Days outtakes are the analog-recorded Lennon-via-Davies vocals DeMarco was exploring at the time. At just about 22 minutes, Some Other Ones is slight and slapdash, but its an excellent annex to some of the best work in his catalog. Compared to the aimless and sometimes heavy Five Easy Hot Dogs or the weaker instrumental segments of One Wayne G, Some Other Ones flashes back to a time when DeMarco was just goofing around and having nothing but fun. ~ Fred Thomas