Here Comes The Cowboy

Here Comes The Cowboy is Mac DeMarco’s fourth studio album, two years after the release of his May 2017 studio album, This Old Dog.

In a press release, Mac explained in detail the title of the album and the recording process:

Hi, Mac here. First of all: Thank you for listening to my new record. This is my cowboy plate. The word “cowboy” is like a pet name for me. I often use it when I talk about people in my life. This rusty old grinning button on the front and back of the plate I bought from a man in the mountains somewhere in the Nantahala National Forest between Chattanooga, TN and Asheville, NC. Where I grew up, there are many people who wear cowboy hats and do cowboy things with conviction. But these are not the people I’m referring to here.

I’ve played all the instruments on the record myself, except for a bit of keyboard here and there, played by my tour keyboardist – now one of my oldest friends – Alec Meen. My traveling sound engineer Yakitori Santar also helped me record and assemble the tracks. During the recording, it was raining a lot in Los Angeles. If you pay close attention, you can hear it knocking on the windows of the garage here and there.

Mac first announced the album’s title and release date on March 5th, 2019, along with releasing the lead single, “Nobody.” There was controversy surrounding the album’s title being similar to that of Mitski’s 2018 album Be The Cowboy. Additionally, her album also included a single titled “Nobody”. According to Mac’s representative, Mac had never listened to Mitski’s album and only learned about her album and song after he had already determined his own titles. Mitski responded to this in a tweet:

On April 2nd, 2019, he released the album’s second single, “All of Our Yesterdays.”

On May 7th 2019, he released the album’s third single “On the Square” accompanied with a music video which the previous single lacked.