Guitar presents intimate moments of vulnerability as DeMarco confronts past mistakes and strives to be worthy of a patient partner. "Nightmare" opens mid-meter with a voice ahead of the beat, conveying waking regret and a candid admission that his partner's presence feels miraculous. Past failures resurface on "Knockin'," arriving as unwelcome guests, while "Home" evokes contemplative longing and encounters with ghosts of previous missteps. Each track registers another obstacle to overcome, showing DeMarco forcing himself forward and committing to a future despite recurrent reminders of his shortcomings. The future-focused songs balance melancholy with quiet determination and warmth.
The song begins mid-meter, DeMarco's voice arriving so ahead of the beat that it's like he has been searching for someone he can tell his troubles to. Maybe there's been an argument, and his partner is still sleeping it off in the next room. It is a miracle, he confesses, that she sticks around at all. "Roll up those sleeves, boy," he sings in a diminutive falsetto, cuddly as a teddy bear.
The past comes back to haunt him on "Knockin'," a simple country-funk number where regrets he thought he'd overcome arrive like uninvited guests for a housewarming party at the spot where he hopes to spend the rest of his life. Evoking George Harrison on a morphine drip, "Home" finds him contemplating the places and people he's already left, how seeing them again would feel like finding a ghost whose sole purpose is to remind him of his failures.
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