I’ve decided to start a new little series called Album of the Month. In my efforts to consume less, but more quality, media, I have limited myself to buying an album a month. March’s album was the 199 track gut punch of an album by Mac Demarco.
This album was a great detox for me. It’s so easy for me to fall into my pretentious side when listening to music. What I listened to on Spotify was out for the world (my friends) to see, and every minute was counted and summed up to compare with them at the end of the year. It mattered that other people might see what I was listening to. But switching to Bandcamp, that was stripped away. I’m not saying that was a huge reason for my listening to music, but it was always lingering in the back of my mind. It was freeing to listen to 9 hours of this album, all by myself and take in each track as they passed.
I feel like I need to rate the music I listen to. Maybe it’s because everyone else does. Maybe it’s the pretentious side of me craving some output to show others. But I’ve decided to exclude a rating system in this series. I want to enjoy the music for what it is. I love music for the story shared within the notes and composition. That story is constantly changing and reinterpreted by different people, and even me when I listen back in a couple months. All this said, I really enjoyed One-Wayne G. It is the perfect album for a Mac Demarco fanatic such as myself. He has a great aesthetic to his music that is shown in different ways as he explores different genres throughout the instrumental tracks. It is inspiring to see the art that an artists makes just for themselves, and share that little bit of fun they had when making it. Listening to the tracks inspired me to compile and release my second iteration of “Gary’s Songs” on Cookies & Jam, which you can listen to now, wherever you listen to music :)