Of all the characters to have emerged from the Vancouver music scene over the decades, few if any have ever seemed as untroubled by life as Mac DeMarco. 

First came his stint with local indie-pop heroes Makeout Videotape. While Vancouver was ablaze with the narrative we lived in No Fun City, the group was busy chilling with a sound that somehow managed to be jaggedly dissonant yet blissfully soothing. 

Since moving back east to Montreal and New York, the 27-year-old has found something approaching grassroots fame as a purveyor of postslacker indie rock. Or as DeMarco likes to call his stuff, jizz jazz.

Given the hyperaccelerated times we live in--where one can go from Big Thief to Titus Andronicus in the time it takes to drain a PBR tallboy--one might rightly expect DeMarco to be feverishly working on a sequel to 2017's widely adored This Old Dog. Touring is where the money's at in 2018, and no one wants to see you pull into town for the fourth time in two years if you've got nothing new to offer.

It's possible that he's aware of that, which explains why DeMarco is keeping his name out there with the release of a new song and video today. 

Then again, the video is of his neighbourhood cat, charmingly named PICKLES, stuffing its fool cat face full of cat food. And said music might be best described by the semi-literate YouTube user who dubbed it as follows: "Exactly the kind of music heard on 80's soft TV p0rn, when we were kids hiding to discover this at a late night party with the kids of your parent's friends."

NME has reported DeMarco saying is “just a video of a cat, not new music”. In other words, if you're expecting a taster from a This Old Dog a sequel, you'll have to take a page from DeMarco and chill out. That'll probably mean you'll live an extra six days in the long run.