“Cooking Up Something Good” by Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco did every job on "Cooking Up Something Good" himself: he wrote the music and the words, recorded it and mixed it. It lives on 2, his debut album, cut in June 2012 and released that October on Captured Tracks, the label that agreed to pay for a full-length once his mini LP Rock and Roll Nightclub had people talking.

The album was made in his apartment in Montreal's Mile End, where he'd settled after leaving Vancouver in 2011, and he recorded it wearing nothing but his underwear. It also marks a turn away from Rock and Roll Nightclub: the glam touches and the crooning are gone, traded for a plainer, more straight-ahead brand of guitar rock.

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