This Old Dog is the third full-length studio album by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mac DeMarco, released on May 5, 2017 through Captured Tracks. Following the release of Another One, DeMarco moved from his isolated Queens home to a house in Los Angeles to create the album.

Mac DeMarco(A.K.A. 26-year old MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco) –This Old Dog,is his third album and first full-length since 2014sSalad Days.

It was a little spacein time, location (he moved from Queens to Los Angeles), and methodthat inspired DeMarco while makingThis Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos hed written in New York, he realized after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, I demoed a full album, and as I was moving to the West Coast I thought Id get to finishing it quickly. But then I realized that moving to a new city, and starting a new life takes time. Usually I just write, record, and put it out; no problem. But this time, I wrote them and they sat. When that happens, you really get to know the songs. It was a different vibe.

DeMarco wrote some demos forThis Old Dogon an acoustic guitar, an eye-opening method for him. The majority of this album is acoustic guitar, synthesizer, some drum machine, and one song is electric guitar. So this is a new thing for me.

And right from the offset, from the pops and clicks of the CR-78 and acoustic strums on the album-opening My Old Man, and the synth-drenched beauty of the second track, This Old Dog, its clear that DeMarcos bag is filled with new tricks indeed.This Old Dogis rooted more in a synth-base than any of his previous releases, but he is careful not to let that tactic overshadow the other instruments and overall unplugged mood of the work. This is my acoustic album, but its not really an acoustic album at all. Thats just what it feels like, mostly. Im Italian, so I guess this is an Italian rock record.

Tracklist

1. My Old Man
2. This Old Dog
3. Baby You’re Out
4. For the First Time
5. One Another
6. Still Beating
7. Sister
8. Dreams from Yesterday
9. A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes
10. One More Love Song
11. On The Level
12. Moonlight On The River
13. Watching Him Fade Away