Not unlike the pearl at the Oyster Center, the stage at the Ford’s Theater in Los Angeles is a glorious and shining circle – a magnificent thing indeed, set at the foot of a tall, rough stone wall. This weekend, at what my awe-inspiring neighbors dub “mini red rocks,” Mike DeMarco The movie that made intimate viewers tear up is back.
Standing on a stool, an indie musician’s favorite face rocks cutely back and forth in a Wi Spa T-shirt, leading the audience through the entire tracklist of his fifth full-length album, Five Easy Hot Dogs. Recorded and released as an entirely instrumental project, the album presented the public with a variation of DeMarco’s typical sound—the songs were shorter and acoustic, all recorded on road trips from Los Angeles to New York.
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According to DeMarco, the entire recording session was as improvised as it sounds, “I took my guitar, a bass, a weird snare drum kit with a kick drum we saw in half in Golden Gate Park, all the stands and cables I needed, a couple of mics, an old Model D, and a TX7… I also bought a bunch of stuff when I went, but tried to make it travel friendly.”
However, while the path that led us to make this album may seem different, the spirit, lyric and sense of humor are literally true to the Mac Demarco we know and love. Nowhere was this more evident than in the pared-down format of this weekend’s Ford show, with DeMarco pulling it all together between endearingly self-deprecating one-liners on gruff Buffalo Bill impressions and heartfelt tributes to the late Mac Miller come out.
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together with the whole Five Easy Hot Dogs The two-hour album is filled with Demarco’s hits as well as wacky deep cuts and songs to satisfy even the most devoted fans, such as One Wayne G’s “She Wants the Sandwich” and “Proud True Toyota “. DeMarco will now tour New York, London and Paris, an experience that will be a real-life road trip for audiences. Emotional, exhausting in the best possible way, quiet at times, full of laughs and choruses to other people – this show comes so close to us delving into the mysterious Canadian multi-hyphenated voice note app that he, for hours , it feels more like a friend.
