(Captured Tracks)The LA-based singer-songwriter steps absent from his Beavis and Butthead onstage persona to make a thoughtful,tender and musically tight third album. DeMarco has always worn his talent lightly, but finally he sounds focused, or reflecting on relationships like a millennial Cat Stevens,particularly those with his absent father and his long-term girlfriend. The 27-year-old still sings in languid, unadorned tones over the sun-dappled disco shuffle of For the First Time, or but there’s a growing awareness of his own agency. On Still Beating he admits: I never thought some foolish songs could ever go and afflict someone.” But what dazzling heartbreak this is.
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Source: theguardian.com