This left Mac with nothing more to do with his down time than to make music. At his new place in Far Rockaway, Queens - a neighborhood as east as you can possibly be before hitting Long Island - you can live in relative isolation despite technically still being in New York City. The album was conceived and recorded entirely by Mac in a short period of time between a relentless tour schedule. Like the days of Steely Dan, Harry Nilsson or Prince releasing a classic every year (or less) comes Mac DeMarco’s Another One, a Mini-LP announced almost one year to the date of the meteorically successful Salad Days.
Lucky for us, Mac DeMarco is old school in his approach: when Mac wants to make a record and he has the songs ready, he makes it. At times, even fans have adopted this rule as well and are almost shocked when their favorite artist is able to release an LP already after two and a half or three years of waiting (let’s call this the MBV-effect). Artists may even feel pressured by reviewers and themselves to go into a deep stasis, only to emerge again when they’ve reinvented themselves into a newly revamped and retooled model, as opposed to just capturing time in a bottle and offering more to their catalog. Managers will tell you that there’s too much money to be made on the road, so the album cycle goes on and on to support that. Press people will tell you that there’s a bottleneck of too many artists covered by too few media outlets who always want to talk about something new. In 2015, the talent for creating a prolific output of exceptional music is almost a curse.
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