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Ducktails - Friends

Ducktails - Dancing With the One You Love

WHOA how good is Ducktails, I mean really? I listened to this self-titled debut all afternoon while making biscuits (procrastibaking), and it also soundtracked this amazing bike ride to and from work this evening. Much has been written about the weird tropical plastic nature of Ducktails' sounds which is totally right-on, but I'm also drawn to the warm suburban vibes emanating from Matt Monandile's delayed guitar and humid samples. I can't wait for it to be summer so I can listen to this while laying on the trampoline in the sun/playing backyard badminton/mowing the lawns. It's pretty suited to autumn as well though, as evidenced from my bike ride today through suburban parks, seven year old kids having rugby practice, down roads I biked to school for years but looked at differently with these sounds and late afternoon light (c. 4.55pm) where the ground is pretty grey and cold but the sky and treetops are illuminated with super vibrant gold, sienna and green. There's some darker/more sombre vibes in the track 'Dancing With The One You Love' which was the perfect night ride accompaniment down the same route now inhibited with misty ponds and yellow streetlights - it's a candlelit late night burner, Bob Harris singing 'More Than This' but more woozy and desperate and falling apart.

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