Mountain Goat

A joyfully weird loner who thrives on his own strange terms.

Mac DeMarco has built an entire career on radical self-sufficiency and eccentricity — recording lo-fi albums in his home, moving to remote locations like the outskirts of LA and rural New York, and operating entirely outside the mainstream music industry on his own label. His public persona is famously odd and unconventional: gap-toothed pranks, cigarette antics, and a deliberately scruffy anti-glamour that defies every expectation of indie stardom. He doesn't follow anyone else's path — he carves his own bizarre trail up the mountain and somehow ends up at the top.