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Here's
some seriously warm, wobbly, surfy, tropical sounding lo-fi gems that
have totally captured our attention! Dripping with such melty, melodic
yet slightly tripped out perfection. Ducktails had a lot going for it
before we even heard the music, the name obviously (!), the great cover
art by Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystavat) and the fact that it was
mastered by Graham Lambkin of The Shadow Ring already lead us to
believe there might be some kind of magic being brewed under the
colorful, inviting cover, so we threw this on the stereo right away and
it's been beyond the perfect soundtrack for the bright and sizzling
sunshine days we've been baking in for the last couple weeks. Ducktails
is the work of one person, Matt Mondanile who has found such a unique
sound, melding elements of the lo-fi pop movement that came out of New
Zealand in the '80s with a tropical undertone and wandering spirit that
sounds like bits and pieces from some gem of a find on a Sublime
Frequencies compilation, the kind of rare multidimensional sound that
Pumice is able to achieve, or the more pastoral side of prog that folks
like Bo Hannson explored, or a sun-soaked instrumental passage from an
Ariel Pink record (actually this actually reminds us a lot of the great
Holy Shit record Ariel Pink made with Matt Fishbeck a while back), or
maybe White Rainbow shining their hypnotic rays through the bodies of a
band on Woodsist. The album's closer "Surf's Up" is almost like a new
generation's version of Terry Riley's A Rainbow In Curved Air!
 This
record is like a soft edged maze that leads in a million different
directions and takes you around on a sonic adventure that isn't as
concerned with destination as it is in creating a totally and wholly
encapsulating journey. While many in the new wave of one-man-band lo-fi
noise pop combos have been focusing their sonic scope more on the fuzz,
and burn, and rocked out side of things, Ducktails have a much more
languid, dreamy and enchanting approach to finding lo-fi bliss through
conjuring up so much warm sun soaked color in their hypnotizing sounds.
Highly Recommended!
12:12 AM
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