Listening Booth: Homeshake’s “Every Single Thing”

You might imagine Homeshake as Mac DeMarco without the guitar. It’s a messy comparison, as are many that pit musicians against one other, but you’d be forgiven for making it: Peter Sagar served as DeMarco’s tour guitarist before 2014, when he bowed out from the band to make his own droopy falsetto R. & B. under the Homeshake name. The amount of heavy petting between indie rock and R. & B. in recent years might have sent Pavement and Brandy into a tailspin, but, for all the posturing, some brilliant concoctions have arisen: Frank Ocean and Alex G’s “Self Control” arrived as an affirmation against skeptics that called it a “fad” three years ago. Isn’t it all blues, anyway?