Mac DeMarco

Back at his best: Mac DeMarco announces his return to Prague the day after a fantastic concert.

"Sometimes you don't need any other medicine than music like this," writes Paste magazine about this year's album Guitar. And Mac DeMarco really does seem like a casual healer - at least when it comes to our spleens. Fragile, endlessly gentle songs have the power to speak to each of the listeners, even if they are standing at the very back of the concert.

"I'm looking forward to being able to play the songs from the album Guitar to as many people as possible," Mac said in the spring, and now he will give that opportunity to those who were affected by his performance in the sold-out big Lucerna and to those who didn't get it.

"Is he the last star of indie rock?" asks The New Yorker in a profile article from this August, describing the transformation of an erratic indie rock brat into a sober man who recently bought an old homestead that can only be reached by a two-hour ferry ride away. “I love you, you are awesome,” he texted DeMarco shortly after the release of Salad Days (2014) Tyler, The Creator, and fans around the world have expressed similar affection since the beginning. "I don't fucking understand my fans today," says DeMarco, who just a few years ago didn't hesitate to share his address in a song's lyrics and then make coffee for fans at home. And that's okay.

DeMarco may seem like a know-it-all friend, but he's a little different and comes across as a revelation at a time when the desire for constant growth has trampled the slightest hint of resistance to the ground. DeMarco is not afraid of imperfections ("It's okay to screw up in bed."), he founded his own label in 2018, stopped drinking five years ago and smoked three years ago, and is gradually getting rid of other - as he says - curses. As casually elegant as his songs are, DeMarco himself talks about the fact that his relationship with creation is not simple. And you can damn well feel it from the tension on the otherwise sparkling album Guitar. Music that may be graceful, but certainly not harmless.