Don't call it a side-project Meet Mac DeMarco’s bandmates

When Mac DeMarco’s not ‘Passing Out Pieces’ and expanding a weirdo cult of flannel shirt-sporting, goofy joke-favouring buffoons, he’s passing the baton to his bandmates. On stage they’ll join in with crap jokes and shameless covers of rock ’n roll heroes. Beyond their live duties, they’re busy with projects of their own. There’s enough to dig into with ‘Salad Days’, ‘2’, ‘Rock and Roll Night Club’ and even Mac’s own Makeout Videotape project, which took up his time before his solo stock went meteoric. Over the past couple of years, however, troves of new music has been unveiled by Pierce McGarry and Peter Sagar. Below we rule out the “side-project” tag and take a look at their recent material, plus what’s to come.

Together the projects share a similar don’t-give-a-fuck attitude; a blazed ether-effect and a nod towards the oddball. It’s the perfect kinship for what Mac’s been putting his name to for years.