The melancholia seeps back through on ‘A Heart Like Hers’, a solemn and plodding effort that is drenched in deep and wallowing organ that epitomises the sense of hopelessness that Mac is attempting to convey. Polished and skilful guitar lines recall the double pronged assault of much of Thin Lizzy’s output features on ‘Just To Put Me Down’ a track which is sure to become a crowning jewel of his live set due to its capacity for expansion. Whilst the verses document a potential suitor’s vain attempts to dissuade the object of his desires away from her current beau, the chorus which is resolutely one of the strongest he’s ever written, dispels this notion by vehemently stating: “Her heart belongs to another and no other heart will do.” In a shift of almost bipolar proportions, Demarco leaps from a tale of unfaithfulness to ‘No Other Heart’, a track which sees him reconcile with the notion of an unbreakable bond between a couple over a jangly and sincerely catchy backdrop. A forlorn effort that sees the British Columbia-born artist verbalise the many feelings that spring to mind of a once cohesive relationship slowly deteriorating due to the infidelity of one party. Similar in its aesthetic but less outright in approach, the record’s title track employs a dense electronic piano that instantaneously registers in the same vein as Salad Days standout ‘Chamber Of Reflection’. Demarco’s lamentation of a relationship that never quite reached the heady heights that it could have been deeply saddening in nature, but it is contrasted by a nothing less than exuberant guitar solo that sounds like the lovechild of the playing styles of XXX Kicking things off with a warped and wonky guitar riff ‘The Way You’d Love Her’ is a wistful and glorious track that stands shoulder to shoulder with much of his finest output. Sticking stringently to one topic like never before, Demarco doesn’t deliver anything in the way of a concept album regarding the emotion but he does provide us with a solid collection of songs about love that veer between sweet to bitter but are nonetheless beautifully constructed in his own signature style. An enduring ideology that has been clung to for decades since it was first aired, it is one that Canadian musician Mac Demarco has clearly became infatuated with during the making of new record Another One. ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ is an adage that has been a part of the world’s collective vernacular ever since The Beatles first embedded it into our brains with a great deal of persistence.
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