Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection (official video and lyrics)

Mac DeMarco (Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV)

Mac DeMarco (born Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV) was born in British Columbia in the small town of Duncan and first made a name for himself as a solo artist and creator of psychedelic movies in Vancouver in 2009.  But it's fair to view DeMarco as a product of the ridiculously-fertile-sick-musician-per-capita city of Edmonton, Alberta which has produced one of the most defineable waves of Canadian artists since Halifax was hailed as the new Seattle.

DeMarco's since found the holy land of Mafia corruption/low rent/low French that is Montreal although he currently lives in Bed Stuy.  While he put out an album as Makeout Videotape in 2009, and under his own name 2 (2012) and the EP Rock and Roll Night Club (2012) it's this years Salad Days that has made the music press stand up and take notice.   At this year's NXNE in Toronto, DeMarco was a must-see for many American journos making the sojourn.

Mac is probably better seen and heard than written about.  Frank Zappa's assertion that writing about music is like dancing to architecture seems particularly apt when trying to process DeMarco.

"Chamber Of Reflection"

Spend some time away
Getting ready for the day
Upon again

Spend some time alone
Understand is on your run
With a better man
Alone again

Alone again
Alone again
Alone again
Alone

Now use looking out
It's within that brings that
Lonely feeling

Understand when you leave here
You be clear
Among a better man
Alone again

Alone again
Alone again
Alone again
Alone

Alone again
Alone again
Alone again
Alone