Summer Comes Early, Thanks To Mac Demarco

The chill king of indie takes it nice ’n’ easy on his new album, Here Comes the Cowboy.

- Alex Pappademas

IT WAS A FRIDAY afternoon in Los Angeles, the first day of March, and Mac DeMarco was under the console in his home studio, hunting for an orange. The space is a converted three-car garage behind the house he shares with his girlfriend, Kiera McNally, at the top of a hill on a one-way street on L.A.’s east side. DeMarco, a chill vibes-playlist staple, is originally from Canada; he and McNally relocated here about three years ago from Queens. Before buying this house, DeMarco worked mostly in the corners of various bedrooms. He’d never had a dedicated space for working on music, or a swimming pool; now he has both. Here Comes the Cowboy is the first Mac DeMarco record completed under these circumstances, but he’s not sure this had much of an impact on the finished product. You can’t hear the proximity to palm trees on a record, after all. “When I’m in a room doing it,” he said, “the room could kind of be anywhere.”