Rock and Roll Night Club
| Mac Demarco
Rock and Roll Night Club
Rock and Roll Night Club is Canadian recording artist Mac DeMarco's debut mini-LP. It was recorded in 2012 in DeMarco's Montreal-based studio Jizz Jazz Studios and released through Captured Tracks on March 13, 2012. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The artist formerly known as Makeout Videotape releases an EP of unsettling soft rock that mixes freaky sleaze with a surprising dose of swooning sensitivity.
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The Line of Best Fit
This is a really cool, engaging record.
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The 405
All grandiose interpretations aside, this is an album of solid, endearing catchy songs, and as a result it becomes one of the most pleasant listens that this year has yet to offer.
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All Music
Rock and Roll Night Club is a confusing record, but not a mess. On the contrary, it's so deeply calculated that the intentions and possible motivations of its songs are likely to be lost on most.
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Exclaim!
Sure, the melodies can blur into one another and some tracks don't stand out, but Rock and Roll Night Club is so ephemeral and addictive that you'll want to be making love in this club regularly.
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No Ripcord
Glinting melodies and seeping paisley groove imply that there’s more to DeMarco than meets the eye.
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Happy Mag
Rock and Roll Nightclub serves as a reminder of the tenacity and astute intuition it must have taken to distil his current style.
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It's Fluffy
I overall feel like I've found something I'd like to hang on to for a while.
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NPR
Alluringly sleazy.
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Beats per Minute
The recycling of sounds from past eras of music has become a huge trend over the past few years, but when those sounds are successfully appropriated in new ways, like they are here, the result proves to be very worthwhile.
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Collapse Board
There are worse ways to spend a summer.
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Aural Wes
It remains a refreshingly weird testament to the potential of intelligence within simplicity, a sentiment easily buried beneath the technical effects and experimental gimmicks so prevalent today.
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Loud and Quiet
‘Rock And Roll Nightclub’ is a happy accident that transcends the joke it started as.
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Vice
I don’t remember my exact thoughts about it then, but it was enough to send this whole album to the 0s and 1s of my MacBook recycle bin.
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Weird Canada
Woozy tremeloed guitars mix with padded percussion to give a warm, lush backing for Mac’s grumbled, sensitive, pitch-shifted nocturnal emissions, while warped radio spoofs and an obsession with blue jeans add to the strange new world that DeMarco creates throughout this mini-LP.
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