'I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them' I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.” Yet all remain open to interpretation: 'A lot of the songs on 2 are pretty personal,' he explains, “but even if I’m writing about something like that I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended.

Some of the songs are distinctly whimsical – the catchy opening track, Cooking Up Something Good, telling the tale of a son whose father manufactures drugs in the family basement – while others, like love song My Kinda Woman, are more upfront. It is a crooning, grooving, guitar-led record an infectious, idiosyncratic form of pop, which DeMarco terms “jizz-jazz”. Honesty, he stresses, was the key theme behind his full-length album 2, released last October – this time with a cover that shows its protagonist in a plaid shirt, making a peace sign and smoking. If I want to make a career out of this, maybe I should be a little bit more honest to myself.'”

“A lot of guys would come to the shows and go, Mac where are the stilettos tonight? Where’s the lipstick, honey? And I was fine with that but at the same time I thought, 'Wait a minute.

“Everybody got a very strange idea of me,” he muses. The EP, described by Pitchfork as a combination of “yacht rock, AM radio gold, and Bowie-like glam,” was a clear indication of DeMarco’s musical flair, but critics and DeMarco alike felt it lacked sincerity. Last April, Mac DeMarco released his first record – the 10-track EP Rock And Roll Night Club, whose title track features on our Another Man playlist – complete with an arresting set of cover art images depicting the then 21-year-old in Halloween regalia and red lipstick.

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