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DUCKTAILS Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee) lp 21.00
Ducktails is another one of those bands that went to zero to sixty
in no time, in terms of releases. Before, it was a tape here, maybe a
7" there, now every week brings a new slab of Ducktails' twisted
tropical pop, but hell, we're not complaining one bit.
Especially
this time, as Landscapes might just be one of the strangest Ducktails
record yet, The first track is what we've come to expect, and dig big
time, swirling lo-fi, tropical soft fuzz pop, antiquated drum machine,
warbly synths, playful woozy sun dappled melodies, plenty of tape hiss
and amp buzz, definitely raw and muddy but also weirdly lush.
That,
however, is just the first song, from there on out, Ducktails bounces
wildly from sound to sound, all held together by a strange hard to
describe thread that runs through all the songs here, keeping this from
being just a mish mash of sounds and songs, and instead smearing it
into a crazy yet cohesive dizzying drift through some seriously tweaked
eighties retro future fuzz Ducktails dream pop. Weird buzzing Eastern
sounding new age gives way to some groovy hard pop, with warped
guitars, lots of flange, rad leads, like an alternative dimension
instrumental lo-fi Loverboy (?), before switching gears and unfurling
some looped almost African sounding warble, which then transforms into
fuzzy jangly blissed out garage pop, then falsetto crooned jangle and
swoon, then a bit of bluesy bedroom slow jam and finally a wicked,
twisted late night infomercial soundtrack, all of the sights and sounds
in Ducktails' soundworld hazy and shimmery and otherworldly and
gloriously washed out.
DUCKTAILS / JULIAN LYNCH split (Underwater Peoples) 7" + dvd-r 8.98
Yep, another Ducktails joint, and it's a goodie. Maybe our favorite
mode of sonic Ducktalia, the sort of faux eighties outer space new age
drift. These days nobody does it better. Bleary eyed, sparkly,
glimmery, glistening, crystalline, otherworldly new-age-wave, bloops
and bleeps and softly effected melodies, all woozy and warbly and oh so
dreamy.
Julian
Lynch is the garage bliss pop new kid on the block, but what we've
heard so far has been pretty awesome, and these two jams demonstrate
just why folks are suddenly all aflutter about this guy. The first
track is a warped minimal soundscape, breathless vocal drones draped
over detuned twang, which eventually builds to a sort of stumbly wah
wah garage pop dirge. The second track sounds like a warped Beach Boys
45 spinning at 16 rpm, fuzzy and washed out, more of that twisted and
looped wah guitar, some almost-funky bass, and some surprisingly lush
harmonies that brighten up the murk just a bit.
Comes with a dvd-r, featuring a bunch of videos too from Richard Law
6:20 AM
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