Anyone heard this guys stuff? I think it's good. Especially if you like to sit out on your front porch and partake in some doobage. WOOWWWOWOWOWOWOWOW.
― OldHamSweat, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
Supposed to be good. Cannot get past that name.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like it
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
I do too. He has an official release coming soon. Looking forward to it.
― OldHamSweat, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
i have never heard of this guy but Ducktales >>> Ducktails
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apples and oranges.
― OldHamSweat, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
this album
― cutty, Thursday, 25 June 2009 20:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
so perfect
how do you make music like this
― cutty, Thursday, 25 June 2009 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
doobage
― am0n, Thursday, 25 June 2009 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
ya i dig this too, surprise
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 25 June 2009 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ agreed
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 25 June 2009 20:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Doesn't this dude have like 50000 releases out at once? What's the one to hear?
― jw and kate plus gr80 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
The LP on NNF is the fist real official jam. I guess there was a 7" or two before that? I like it well enough but... not all the time. If you guys like this I would also suggest checking out the "Dolphins Into The Future" LP.
― ian, Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Awwsome stuff especially the track " Daily Vacation"
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
been jamming this pretty much nonstop
― bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
all i've got is backyard tho
― bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
let's rock the beach on permanent repeat basically all day long can you even stand it
i try to avoid getting hoos but srsly this track actually sounds like kicking it on a beach around a bonfire with yr bros, i'm getting misty over here
― bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
no one cares
― bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
i do, let's rock the beach is one of my favorites
― cutty, Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's great and i love it
― bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure my roommate's sick of it by now
what is out there besides his s/t??
― Kiptok, Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
the one they're talkin about is Backyard on (I think) Woodsist, it's pretty good
― dmr, Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Kiptok, there's a discography on his website: http://alexphelan.com/ducktails/index.html
I really like this stuff, but think I dig his Real Estate project even more: http://www.myspace.com/letsrockthebeach
― Barnaby, Hardly, Sunday, 12 July 2009 11:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love Real Estate too, especially Beach Comber... Also one of the rare myspace where the influences list makes some sens :
Paul MccartneyDoobie BrothersKokomoThe CleanThe BossJulian LynchNew Jersey
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was just listening to the Real Estate single, it's not bad if yr on the 80s indie fuzz wagon
― At War With False Nose (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sounds like Galaxie 500 meets Bo Hansson to me (not an insult at all.)
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is any of this available digitally? I can't find any on eMusic or iTunes...
― Metro Video Centers, Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
feelin' this, have yet to check out real estate
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 12 July 2009 22:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
the new parasails is pretty good too. hey, does anyone feel like posting a copy of "dancing with the one you love?" mine doesn't work and i would be forever grateful
― kamerad, Monday, 13 July 2009 03:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like the real estate singles. i also like that they were recorded at "yeah buddy HQ" in new brunswick, new jersey.
― ian, Monday, 13 July 2009 03:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
real estate singles are nice, agreed.
MVC, i don't think they're available as downloads yet, but the underwater peoples 7"s come w/cds in them if that's any added attraction
― pretzel walrus, Monday, 13 July 2009 03:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Good live, especially when he stood up (w/solo).
― ogmor, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
A lot of this sounds like he's jamming directly over Thai music. Or sometimes like he just threw a bunch of distortion on some of that stuff. I'm not complaining. There was a period after I got back that it was the only kind of music I wanted to listen to. My friend got this CD that has 30 min songs where they just jam the fuck out on like one or 2 chords with electric 3 stringed guitars (forget their name). Sounds totally like it could have been made by jap or wburg noise kids.
Love the song titles. Sounds like a bro.
― bong hitzvah (jaxon), Thursday, 16 July 2009 23:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is where i got on:
― The Macallan 18 Year, Saturday, 29 August 2009 19:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
this stuff is pretty boring. what does it have going for it other than 'it reminds me of being 7 yrs old in the 80s bcuz the wooziness is like an overplayed cassette tape'
― butthurt (deej), Sunday, 30 August 2009 03:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
how old are you?
― cutty, Sunday, 30 August 2009 08:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
26
― butthurt (deej), Sunday, 30 August 2009 08:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
this stuff kinda reminds me of harmonia/cluster, except at 45 rpm.
― HURL CROCKERY AT THE MOSQUE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 30 August 2009 09:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
^otm^
― kamerad, Sunday, 30 August 2009 14:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
considering that every post in this thread is in praise of ducktails, what on earth is the point in coming just to talk shit? go and start a poll for the 17th greatest pop single of the 00s or something dude
the above youtube reminds me of a new age of earth era ashra
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, 30 August 2009 16:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm liking "parasails", i wouldn't normally seek out that split 7" but this is good stuff
― psychgawsple, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost
Yeah, only ONE opinion per thread here, fella. Be down, or get beat down.
― tea cake, Monday, 31 August 2009 01:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
heard this the other day, pretty much love it, yup.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 31 August 2009 01:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol u dont follow my posts at all do youanywayz im not so sure whats wrong with asking someone to explain its appeal -- im not here to talk shit, im here to understand why ppl whose taste i follow i.e. max are repping for this when i think its pretty zzzz & im not sure what its doing thats so unique. i mean if were gonna go easy listening why not go all the way? this is a jam:
― butthurt (deej), Monday, 31 August 2009 08:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
that IS a jam
― cutty, Monday, 31 August 2009 11:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
tbh i just said "i dig this" which i do, also that is a jam
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 12:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't see that liking sunlounger and ducktails is mutually exclusive, though. deej, if you don't like it, you don't like it. i'm not going to try and convince you of its endearing musical qualities. try smoking some weed.
― cutty, Monday, 31 August 2009 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
fair enough if you don't like it but i dunno it just seemed like you stormed in, listened to half a youtube and decided to tell everyone it's boring in a snarky manner. my apologies if i caught the wrong end of the stick.
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Man what has Dean Roberts been doin?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
A few weeks ago he played a really good set with a drummer (not sure who) here in Auckland. Slow quiet improv, about what I expected his songless stuff would sound like (I'd only ever heard Be Mine Tonight). I think he's living in New Zealand again. No clue, aside from that.
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Real Estate wouldn't sound out of place entertaining the evening beach crowd at the Myrtle Beach Holiday Inn. And I mean that as a compliment.
― It's Favre O'Clock Somewhere!!! (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Really liking the two Real Estate 7"s so far, particularly "Suburban Beverage". Need to get ahold of some Ducktails stuff.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
the real estate album is really nice.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is it out? Leaked?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm talking about the s/t on woodsist, but half the songs are the same as some earlier "tour cd" i had downloaded ... not even rerecorded. i'm not complaining.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thanks, I'll have to get ahold of that one.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
plz leo that n/a thx
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shit is hard to google.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
i know!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
search on here:
http://www.supersuperdb.com/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thanks, didn't know about that site.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
these guys are playing chicago tomorrow, I am pondering going but probably won't because I am lazy.
― dr johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I thought about going to that, but with all the Pitchfork fawning over Girls, I'm a little wary of the annoying crowd this might draw.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Saw Real Estate @ The Funhouse (Seattle) tonight. Really nice, and a good deal more propulsive/energetic than I expected. Drummer & bassist hammer the tunes surprisingly hard. Reminded me of a bunch of different stuff: surf music, the "rhyming guitars" of Pell Mell & Love Tractor, a sort of John Frusciante version of late Pavement (plus they had Malkmus clothes), even Dire Straits. Only knew "Fake Blues" and "Pool Swimmers" going in, off a Woodsist 45 I picked up a while back, but I liked just about everything they played. Bought a copy of the new LP off them, which I'm listening to now. It's excellent, though much more relaxed & dreamy than the live show.
Band afterwards was Pill Wonder, who sounded too much like Animal Collective for my taste, so I split. A guy shooting hoops in the rain told me about clown cults in Italy, and how they used to eat people and terrorize them and so forth. The red mouth of the modern clown supposedly symbolizes the bloody jowls of this hideous cannibal clown ancestor. I dunno. Is this true? Did there used to be clown cults in Italy, and did they used to eat people? I would like to think so.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
The internet provides little to no evidence supporting the existence of cannibal clown cults.
:(
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay so I've fallen really hard for Real Estate, but I'm not sure I can say the same for Ducktails. Backyard didn't feel like anything I'd really want to return to.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
<3 ducktails, kinda meh on real estate (tho it's certainly not BAD). and i'm getting more mileage out of 'landscapes' than 'backyard' fwiw
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
cosign ^^
― 69, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Like em both about equals, and yeah, Landscapes is my favorite Ducktails so far.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Like the s/t on NNF, too.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
add note - i also picked up a real estate "live on the radio" lp at that show, which is much more like what i thought they'd sound like live: a clean, bright, unreverby version of the studio stuff, with a v understated rhythm section. looses some of the melancholy psychedelia, but still nice back porch jams. nowhere near as revelatory as woods' "acoustic family creeps" radio session ep.
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i like that woods AFC LP too
― 69, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, one of my favorite records of the year - wish it were longer
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah
Still haven't been able to find Landscapes, but am listening to the self-titled Ducktails right now and loving it a lot more than Backyard.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm not max or anything but tht sunlounger track is amazing
― conezy (cozwn), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
julian lynch album i like, kinda like a canaxis version of this
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
I really like the new album, even if it has veered more towards Real Estate territory than his previous albums (i.e. more "songs" and less textural, for the most part). Fair warning though, I'm a sucker for this particular vibe right now.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, been listening to the new one a lot too, "porch projector" and "killin' the vibe" do it for me
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
― conezy (cozwn), Friday, December 11, 2009 8:32 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha. glad ppl were feeling my sunlounger jam
― *gets the power* (deej), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/ducktails-the-flower-lane
― mizzell, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 21:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
???
Ducktails - Letter of Intent (my new single, premiered on Vogue today) http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/new-song-debut-ducktails-letter-of-intent-featuring-a-duet-with-jessa-farkas/#1
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:04 (6 months ago) Permalink
Are the ??? For the Vogue connection? Song sounds pretty good. Better than the title track, though the Supertramp whistle makes me chuckle every time.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:41 (6 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, just seemed an unlikely place to premiere a Ducktails song.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:48 (6 months ago) Permalink
I really, really like the new one. I get why its kinda divisive, I can see how people who loved the bedroom sound of the self-titled or Landscapes might be put off by how crisp and smooth this is. But I dig how it kinda hits the midpoint between Real Estate, Ford & Lopation 80s sounds, and like Kaputt era Destroyer.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
This guy totally lost me A dud in every sense of the word IMO. No identity.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:11 (4 months ago) Permalink
OldHamSweat
― groundhog-enorme-toute-grosse-253x300.jpg (clouds), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:12 (4 months ago) Permalink
hadn't heard these guys before, but i like the latest release, especially the duets with the lady singer. i take it it's kind of a departure from the other stuff?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:50 (4 months ago) Permalink
Well he started out doing pretty lo-fi, fuzzy guitar based stuff, but subsequent releases (esp 2011's III) saw him meandering a little closer to Real Estate (his other band) territory. this one is a huge leap in sound quality and collaboration. the Ford & Lopatin dudes also show up, there are a lot of guests on this.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
it's pretty good! especially like the "letter of intent" tune.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:05 (4 months ago) Permalink
i dig this. i'm very happy that the pointless sax solo has made a comeback.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
I like Planet Phrom (apparently a cover, he played it at Woodsist Fest and credited the songwriter, can't remember who) off Flower Lane. and Killin the Vibe is all time. other than those standouts though I think I liked Ducktails better when it was more distinct from Real Estate. (maybe not coincidentally my opinion of Real Estate went way up in the meantime, Days was fantastic ... didn't really get into the debut much)
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:08 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh here's the original
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
that is a great tape, dude was in the NZ band Snapper.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:12 (4 months ago) Permalink
― 888 (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
Anyone else at the Lexington show last night? Phenomenal stuff; the new material is so much better live; looser, freer etc. And Matt Mondanile's guitar work was absolutely sublime. Could happily listen to him puttering about for hours.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
Flower Lane grew on me. it's pretty cool, especially the first half.
― dmr, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
Hastily put together review of said gig...http://crackmagazine.net/music/ducktails-2/
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:21 (3 months ago) Permalink