Hey, it’s another song by Mac DeMarco. Never realised how many of his tracks began with the letter ‘O’. Also never took into account how close they were alphabetically. These things just work out that way. But it’s another good one, at least in my books, though I have to admit it passed me by on that initial listen. Really, it wasn’t until the music video (above) for ‘One Another’ was released that replayed it a few times and found that it was indeed a fine piece of music. This Old Dog had already been out for exactly a month at that point. But you know how they say better late than never and all that. The video played its part too, containing clips of DeMarco and his band goofing around and barely making any attempt to mime correctly to the track.
Like many others on the record, ‘One Another’ maintains a predominantly acoustic soundscape, containing easygoing guitar chord progressions that are pleasant to the ears with these feathery keyboard presses in between. Carrying on his usual go-to lyrical subject matter of relationships, DeMarco takes on the perspective of someone providing advice to another who has just gone through a breakup. This narrator hopes to cheer this poor soul up, telling them they it’s worth to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all, and that by going through this sad situation they’ll know what and what not to do the next time they’ve found someone. Although it may hurt now, there will be a time when they understand it wasn’t all pointless and better days are to come.
Yeah, it’s another relaxing one courtesy of Mac DeMarco. Fans of his were quick to jokingly make quips on the track was similarly titled to another of his called ‘Another One’. These tracks are not the same. Though I would say that that song is even more smoother than this. Can’t go wrong listening to both though. This’ll be the last DeMarco song I write about in this section, I swear.
The Music in My Ears 