“Baby You’re Out” tumbles beautifully through its chord changes like a soccer ball falling down a stairwell that manages to hit every fourth step. The title track brings to mind Little Joy in its unhurried and confident sense of swing, and DeMarco’s natural warmth and weariness shine through.
This approach brings to mind singer-songwriters of an earlier era, particularly iconoclasts like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and JJ Cale. For a guy who seems to live life off the cuff and in the moment, his music feels more timeless. There’s more acoustic guitar and less processing, which frees it from the post-chillwave context of his earlier music. Compared to the two records before it, the new album is less cluttered, never using two words when one will do, and generally going easy on the woozy guitar effects. But This Old Dog, DeMarco’s third album, does show some signs of growth. At this point, a radical change-up for DeMarco would be weird-he’s got his style, it works, and he’s sticking with it.
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