While perhaps not the return to bigger records that fans of Salad Days might have hoped for, Five Easy Hot Dogs stays true to the linear, if unexpected, evolution of Mac DeMarco’s music. What came out of the quiet moments in which this album was written is a pensive reflection, fourteen tracks that could easily be interludes on Here Comes the Cowboy. His cult following has only grown since the rise in popularity of his music on TikTok, though one cannot imagine any tracks from Five Easy Hot Dogs appearing on the app. Each of the fourteen songs is named for the city where it was recorded, like elaborate diary entries of his elaborate odyssey a tour that never was.ĭeMarco has created an auditory exposition of the solitary part of his life, a contemplative persona explored thoroughly in his recorded discography but not often reflected in his raucous onstage presence. and Canada, staying in each place for an indefinite period of time before moving on. DeMarco wrote the record on a road trip across the Western U.S. The record exists squarely in DeMarco’s signature style, featuring meandering guitars and earthy percussion, but the album contains no lyrics – the songs speak for themselves and the places they represent.
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