Here Comes the Cowboy
| Mac Demarco
Here Comes the Cowboy
Here Comes the Cowboy is the fourth full-length album by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mac DeMarco, released on May 10, 2019, through Mac's Record Label. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The latest from the indie rock rapscallion is an often pretty, occasionally frustrating record that was recorded quickly, but still sounds labored over.
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Consequence of Sound
The mellow slacker continues to take creative risks that prove satisfying.
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Rolling Stone
The soft-rock savant’s latest drifts amiably through a hermetic couch-jockey haze.
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SPIN
Though it’s ultimately a mixed bag, Here Comes The Cowboy feels like a creative release.
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Pop Matters
'Here Comes the Cowboy' Is a Thorny, Frightening Record About the Passage of Time.
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The Guardian
Self-indulgent comedy indie.
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The Line of Best Fit
Prior to its release the musician stated that “I’m in a place right now where I just don’t care”, after listening to Here Comes The Cowboy, I can’t say that I do either.
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NME
The slacker hero slows things down on his fourth full-length album, finding catharsis in gentle instrumentation and thoughtful lyrics.
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The 405
Mac DeMarco takes creative risks but oversimplifies in other areas with Here Comes The Cowboy.
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The Post Athens
Mac DeMarco’s ‘Here Comes the Cowboy’ is simply perfect.
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Vulture
Here’s the Cowboy seems depressed, but it knows where its lifelines are. Listening to this gorgeous but uneven batch of sad songs and slow songs, you hope the writer is using them to work through whatever’s bugging him, not to relax in its grip.
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Slant Magazine
DeMarco has a knack for composing simple yet alluring melodies that feel weighty and timeless.
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Soundblab
Here Comes the Cowboy is his most drastic leap yet. The transition can feel a bit shaky at times, sure, but his new relaxed outlook has provided his music with welcome frankness.
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High Snobiety
Mac DeMarco Is a Lost Wanderer on ‘Here Comes the Cowboy’. .
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Mac DeMarco lives in his own world, and I don’t think we’re invited in.
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Treble Zine
Somehow, amid all the bizarre Mac shenanigans, I’m still loyal. Heck, he could release a follow up album titled Here Comes the Cow, and I would probably laugh, question it a little, read too deep into what this means for the USDA, and then remember this is just Mac being Mac.
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XS Noize
While his Viceroy smoking, baggy jean wearing aesthetic can be a turn off for some people the folk-rockers fourth full length comes off the back of one of his strongest albums so far, 2017’s ‘This Old Dog’.
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The Skinny
Here Comes the Cowboy encapsulates a liberating sense of past struggle with heartbreaking lyrics and vivacious instrumentation.
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Northern Transmissions
Mac’s a changed man, but maybe not as much as he thinks he is. Maybe one day, this cowboy will yearn for his salad days.
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Irish Times
Generally, it seems like much of DeMarco’s other material; nice to schmooze along to, but nothing to sink your teeth into. It seems that title may have a double meaning.
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Independent
On his fourth and worst album, the musician is coasting on idle hooks and the cachet of his supposedly relatable character.
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GQ
Mac DeMarco Made a Nice Album That You'll Be Playing All Summer.
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TH Clip
Mac DeMarco pares his songwriting down to something more minimal on Here Comes the Cowboy, losing a lot of personality along the way.
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The Wee Review
Regardless of how DeMarco feels about what has made him successful, he has wisely chosen not to shun it.
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The Echo
‘Here Comes the Cowboy’ combines classic songs with indie sounds.
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Songbird
Of course this is not Demarco’s best album to date, but an artist must expand and grow, even it that means in a direction not suited for the audience.
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HALLIDAY
Here Comes The Cowboy feels like it could be the opening act of a new saga for Mac.
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BVNW News
The gap-toothed goofball contrasts his class clown persona with his new self-reflective album.
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The Washington Times
.Mac DeMarco melds classic and fresh on new album.
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Outline Online
The production of Demarco’s voice is silky smooth and the guitars wind crisply around his dozy whisper.
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The Modern Life Mag
Mac DeMarco creates a body of work that will sustain and grow over time with his release, " Here Comes The Cowboy".
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RPM Media
On a cloudy, candle-lit afternoon at home in pajamas eating cereal all day like mine is here in SoCal, this record might just be your cup of tea.
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SCAN
‘Here Comes the Cowboy’ is at times both Mac’s most minimal album as well as his most maximal.
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STACK
It seems that after years of relishing attention, Mac DeMarco is now craving a more solitary existence, settling down not only in life but within his sound.
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No More Work Horse
Laid back, low-fi crooning.
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The Agit Reader
DeMarco supplied the most apt review of his own album: it’s nothing special.
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Silent Radio
‘Here Comes The Cowboy’ is an album which deserves to be heard as a whole album too, apart from the oddball moments such as “Choo Choo” (yes, it’s about a train), as the songs are all linked by their gentility and encompassing folk Americana style – it’s like a musical story which slowly reveals itself with each listen. One for the daydreamers.
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Vice
Goofy simplicity.
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Peanut Butter Pope
Everybody has a weakest album, and unfortunately, this is Mac DeMarco’s.
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Erie Reader
The spaciest and most inconsistent record.
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Relix
That’s classic DeMarco: breeziness with a hint of mischief.
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Dork
This is a record that's 100% proof - true to itself and its creator at every step.
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Inquirer
Perhaps it’s a victim of unfortunate timing, but the album’s cowboy theme is distracting.
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Drunken Werewolf
Here Comes The Cowboy still manages to touch a soft spot.
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The Student Playlist
Lacking the effortless charm of previous albums, Mac DeMarco’s latest LP ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’ sounds disappointingly sterile despite some wonderful moments.
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Farout Magazine
There are of course some shining moments.
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The True Blue Note
Here Comes the Cowboy is Mac’s growth as an artist.
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The Edge
Mac's newest album features his some of most nuanced and thought-provoking songs yet, as well as a tune about the noise that steam trains make. Choo Choo.
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Uncut
Goofy Canadian reveals his mature, sensitive side on subdued, stripped-back fourth.
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Epigram
'A symbolic move away from the psychedelic indie genre that was fostered in his ‘Chamber of Reflection’ era'.
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Fourcast
Without the redundancy of few songs, the album is a success to me and definitely something I’ll be adding to my music library.
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Spectrum Culture
DeMarco seems to be vying not only to be his generation’s Paul Simon, but also his generation’s Donald Fagen.
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Set the Tape
Mac’s confessions and regrets are laid out for us against the playful pops of subtle percussion.
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AP News
Mac DeMarco melds classic and fresh on new album.
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NCC Linked
MAC DEMARCO EMBRACES HIS WEIRD SIDE ON ‘HERE COMES THE COWBOY’.
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The Sound Review
Jizz Jazz pioneer Mac Demarco settles upon a Western homestead of indecision on his fifth studio album Here Comes The Cowboy.
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Flood Magazine
DeMarco’s album provides a suitably slow-tempoed, faintly depressive balm for anyone whose lot in life is seclusion.
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Earbuddy
He’s just getting stuff off his chest and letting us ride along for the good and not so good.
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Beat Route
Here Comes the Cowboy isn’t exactly country, but it shows DeMarco is willing to take risks. Musically, it’s minimalistic, but there’s beauty in its simplicity.
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KURE
It’s no surprise to ask whether some of these tracks should have been left on the cutting room floor.
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Riff Magazine
Mac DeMarco cowboys up with escapism on new LP.
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LONDON IN STEREO
An air of sarcasm hangs over the whole record, and if I’m honest, I was hoping for something a lot more radical. Best listened to in the haze of lonely summer evenings.
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No Ripcord
This album is a reflection of growth, and hopefully a promise for more of the same.
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Clash Music
King of the slackers turns introspective lone ranger…
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Spill Magazine
While Here Comes the Cowboy pulls it off it parts, it is far from his strongest effort.
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Albumism
Mac DeMarco Tips His Hat to the Tried-and-True on Reflective ‘Here Comes the Cowboy’.
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Setlist.fm
Here Comes The Cowboys is a Mac DeMarco album through and through, it takes us through his lonesome and somber experiences while giving us the goofy tracks we equally cherish.
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Exepose
At worst the album is frustrating but at best, I can describe it with one word which all music should fear like the Black Death: it is boring.
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Skiddle
A collection of slakcer rock gems.
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NOW Toronto
Good.
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The National Student
On This Old Dog, it felt like the lethargy was at least backed by excellent songwriting. Here, there is hardly a skeleton to support the bare-bones approach.
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DIY Mag
For a singer that was always so charismatic, being just ordinary feels like a bit of a bummer.
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Exclaim!
Here Comes the Cowboy is a disappointing turn from this perpetual overachiever.
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The Diamondback
While there are moments reminding listeners of his talents, DeMarco’s commitment to doing nothing somehow overshadows them.
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Medium
Two-and-a-half out of five stars. This is another case of me expecting a little bit more from a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Loud And Quiet
Devotees to the DeMarco catalogue may still find comfort in this over-simplification of his form, but at what stage does his ineffable stoner rock become nothing more than ignorable, repetitive muzak?
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UCSD Guardian
“Here Comes the Cowboy” provides more indie rock hits with a splash of southern charm and proves how Mac DeMarco continues to be a more-than capable songwriter and artist.
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Irish Times
Humdrum hipsterisms.
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All Music
Here Comes the Cowboy might have been trimmed down to a solid EP or mini-album, but as a whole it just doesn't live up to the standards DeMarco set on his first three albums.
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The Skinny
Here Comes the Cowboy encapsulates a liberating sense of past struggle with heartbreaking lyrics and vivacious instrumentation.
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XS Noize
With only a small handful of strong songs, ‘Here Comes the Cowboy’ is Mac DeMarco’s weakest album for a long time, so maybe the worries displayed in ‘Nobody’ are somewhat warranted.
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