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“The only difference was looking out the window and being like, ‘Oh, there’s a palm tree.’”
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The rest of the album was finished in Los Angeles, where DeMarco recently relocated to from Queens, New York, but he says the change of coast had no lyrical or sonic influence on the album: “It’s just one bedroom to another I was in the same headspace,” he says. Once DeMarco’s label told him if he wanted to put out a record in early in 2017 that it would have to be done around Christmas time, he decided to start by pulling from the ones he already had. Since he didn’t plan on sharing them with the public, they ended up sitting for some time - a new, and unintentional, tactic for the indie artist, considering in the past once he has finished a project he typically releases it “as quickly as possible” (evidenced by the five projects he has released in the past five years). Looking to the past largely shaped this album, from the lyrics even to the way in which the record was pieced together. Back in early 2016, DeMarco wrote several songs that he says “were just for myself” while still living in New York.