Mac DeMarco’s Holy is a small, steady prayer about wanting a miracle and owning a curse.
Holy landed on July 22, 2025 with a self-shot video that keeps the framing casual, garden-path and handheld, the sort of clip that looks tossed off until you notice how precisely it steers feeling.
Mac DeMarco bites an apple, looks straight into the camera, and lets a tiny hymn float out like a wish you only say when no one’s around. “Miracle, reveal yourself to me,” he sings, and the next breath darkens: “Curse, carried on forever in me.”
Those two short lines, simple and heavy, set the coordinates for Holy, the second preview from his August 22 album Guitar, released on Mac’s Record Label.
Mac DeMarco wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed the record himself, with mastering by David Ives, and he even handled the cover art and videos on a tripod.
When Home arrived in June, his press line was concise: “I think Guitar is as close to a true representation of where I’m at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper… I’m happy to share this music, and look forward to playing these songs as many places as I’m able.”
That claim sets the stakes for Holy, a two-and-a-half-minute plea where faith and doubt sit uncomfortably at the same kitchen table.
The sound is spare, voice forward, drums kept dry, guitar soft-focus rather than glossy.
A small, steady pulse carries the melody while the lyric toggles between two poles in little ten-word postcards.
“Your help could set me free,” an open hand. “Curse from down below, holy,” a shadow that will not move.
These are not poetic knotted lines; they read more like a thought you’ve had playing on repeat on your mind, and that plainness is what makes it captivating.
Mac explains the clip with a smile in a quote circulated in coverage: “I waded around in the ocean fully clothed for a couple hours and completely filled my boots with seawater… in the end the clip of me falling in the garden and eating the apple was best.”
The joke is gentle, the image memorable, the symbolism easy to read if you want it: a literal bite, a little Garden reference, a nod to temptation that never turns preachy.
After a few years of experiments and detours, a 199-track dump, and an instrumental road record, Mac’s new era is quieter and more domestic.
Guitar was made at home in Los Angeles in November 2024, and the two singles so far suggest a writer more interested in small, true statements than clever puzzles.
That stance is consistent with how he lives and how he now releases work.
On reddit, fans call the track “pleasant,” praise the drum sound, and connect it to the airy minimalism of Here Comes the Cowboy. Others hear sameness and drift, wishing for a jolt.
One comment frames it cleanly: he is making what he wants to make now, and if you need more fireworks, this won’t be it.
A different thread on reddit reads the two singles as a fuller picture of the album’s tone, “chilled out” and lulling by design.
These aren’t just hot takes; they map the debate around late DeMarco in 2025, where maturity for some listeners equals boredom for others.
Why the little lyric fragments work in spite of that debate comes down to feel.
“Miracle, from above, holy,” he sings, four words that float like a candle over water.
Then the other side of the coin, “Curse, from which I may never be free,” a line that squares up to weight without theatrics.
There is no big modulation, no studio flex, just a pocket and a voice that sounds like it has lived with the thought for a while.
As of August 18, the official Holy video has cleared 700,000 views on Mac’s channel, a healthy number for a low-key single three weeks in, and the track is live on Spotify and Apple Music.
Mac has already told you how to hear it. “As close to a true representation… as I can manage to put to paper,” he said of the album that holds Holy, a line that frames the song less as a single and more as a diary page he decided not to hide.
The open question is yours: when he sings those ten words at the heart of the track, do you hear a plea, a confession, or a habit he is trying to break.
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Mac DeMarco Holy Lyrics
Verse 1
Miracle, reveal yourself to me
Miracle, your help could set me free
Miracle from above, holy
Verse 2
Curse, carried on forever in me
Curse, from which I may never be free
Curse from down below, holy