Mac DeMarco, Bane's World, TC Superstar

Surfing in on last month’s fourth LP Here Comes Cowboy, Canadian cut-up Mac DeMarco revisits his psychedelic Salad Days. Still a goofball, the former Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV maintains beach-y, lo-fi lamentations that fall under the easygoing guise of “blue wave,” “slacker surf rock,” or as the 29-year-old wunderkind self-describes, “jizz jazz.” – Marilee Bodden